del.icio.us links for 24-27 April 2009

April 27, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-04-27

• Swine flu: Twitter’s power to misinform
  Did Twitter’s coverage of the breaking of swine flu point to a problem with microblogging?
  (tags: twitter socialmedia journalism swineflu)

links for 2009-04-26

• BBC | Magistrate resigns in Twitter row
  Should magistrates be able to report the outcomes of cases to people in the area, once they’ve been discussed in open court? Hard to see why not, but one magistrate has been forced to resign over doing it.
  (tags: twitter legal law)

links for 2009-04-25

• H1N1 Swine Flu on Google Maps
  Britain did this for a snow fall; the US does it for swine flu that may be the global pandemic we’ve all been scared about. On the whole, you have to say, the US version of data mapping wins this round…
  (tags: information google flu map swineflu)
• BBC | ‘Ill’ worker fired over Facebook
  Swiss worker lying in a dark room with a migraine caught out by using her iPhone to update Facebook: she says the company had created a fictitious Facebook persona to become “friends” with her to monitor her online activity.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking surveillance privacy)
• Welcome to HootSuite, the ultimate Twitter toolbox -…
  Interesting resource allowing easy management of multiple Twitter accounts – or the use of one Twitter account by many users.
  (tags: twitter web2.0 socialmedia tools microblogging twitter-tools)
• Don’t tell the COI but …
  More follow up n the conversion of COI NDS news feeds to twitter. And why not?
  (tags: twitter coi news nds)

links for 2009-04-24

• Anti-obesity TV ads to promote ‘active videogames’
  New advert for change4life treads a delicate line on video games …
  (tags: government advertising videogames obesity change4life)
• NASA shuttle astronaut Twitters about mission training
  Is Twitter about to go where no microblog has gone before?
  (tags: space twiter nasa)