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Reuters is reporting that the Taliban have started answering queries submitted to an online forum on their website.Questions have been asked on topics ranging from the Taliban's negotiations with the United States to their position on educating girls.The Taliban banned......more

This is an extended news report on the Israel Defence Forces' social media activities including interviews with the soldiers updating the various IDFSpokesperson accounts.The video is a year old, but I've been looking for this sort of material for a while. The......more

NATO has launched a new interactive social media platform called WE-NATO. It's primarily a Wordpress blog which will attempt to encourage an "eye level conversation with netizens out there in the web".WE-NATO also wants to livestream a series of talks......more

The Sunday Times correspondent, Marie Colvin, was killed in Syria on Wednesday morning. She died after a makeshift media centre in Homs came under attack from Syrian forces. French photographer Rémi Ochlik was also killed.Colvin and Ochlik died the day......more

This Al Jazeera English report on Syria's citizen journalists is interesting.  When people in the media industry talk about "embedded journalists" they usually mean journalists embedding with military units. It is, of course, possible to 'embed' with other people or organisations......more

Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more

The Chief of the Defence Staff gave an annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute last night. General Sir David Richards spoke broadly about the global environment, the response of the armed forces and particular strategic challenges.He argued that......more

I am picking out a few of the more interesting links from my 2011 delicious bookmarks. On Monday, I selected five from my 'war reporting' tag. Today, I've selected another five from among the bookmarks I labelled 'Twitter' in my delicious account.  Enjoy! ......more

This year I bookmarked at least 530 links on delicious. I know that because I try to tag each bookmark by year - I'm three hundred or so links down on last year's total of 854. Seeing as we're coming......more

 The Ottawa Citizen has started a memorial Twitter account for members of the Canadian Forces who have lost their lives in conflict.The account will tweet the name of one service member at 11 minutes past every hour. The name is......more