The micro-blogging service Twitter has been providing updates to the attacks in Mumbai. Link to Twitter feed. Some of the commentary and links are off-base but it is a fascinating view into how the ‘crowd’ can monitor and report on real-time events. For example, there is a link posted to a ‘google doc’ spreadsheet listing [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Twitter comes of age reporting on Mumbai attacks
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, News, tagged mumbai, terrorism, twitter on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aardvark’s and Avatars
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There continues to be some discussion and rejection of the idea that terrorists would be able to exploit new technology platforms such as social networking and virtual worlds. In a recent post the blogger Abu Aardvark (aka Marc Lynch from GW University) goes some way in debunking ideas surrounding terrorist use of social networking, Wiki’s [...]
Abu Aardvark on al-Qaeda 2.0
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting post by Abu Aardvark (aka Marc Lynch from GW University) on terrorist use of technology. Link to posting here. Some interesting comments comparing outreach and operations.
