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Leaks on demand – how the Wikileaks cables are being used

I’m probably not the only person to notice a curious development in how the Wikileaks material is being used in the press recently. From The Guardian and The Telegraph to The New York Times and The Washington Post, the news agenda is dictating the leaks, rather than the other way around. It’s fascinating because we are used to seeing leaks as
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Matt Wells on The Guardian’s interactive protests Twitter map

The Guardian have published an impressive map displaying Twitter coverage of protests around the Arab world and the Middle East. I asked Matt Wells, who oversaw the project, to explain how it came about. The initial idea, which I should credit to deputy editor Ian Katz, was to build something that showcased the tweets of our correspondents, along a broader
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Twitter promoted tweets – the AdWords for live news?

Remember all that fuss about newspapers bidding on Google Adwords to drive traffic to their site? Well here’s a Web 2.0 twist on the idea: Al Jazeera using sponsored tweets to raise awareness of their Egypt coverage. Twitter itself has the background. Some notable differences to Adwords are that the promoted tweets can be replied to and retweeted just like
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Review: The Blogging Revolution by Antony Loewenstein

From the Baghdad Blogger to Twittering the Chinese Earthquake, plenty has been written about the potential of blogs to allow Western readers access to foreign voices: the ‘Parachute Journalism’ of ‘Our Man in Tehran’ is appearing increasingly anachronistic and paternalistic next to the experiences and thoughts of those caught in the crossfire. Despite this, mainstream media portrayals of countries like
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