| Al Jazeera: the view from Gaza 2 days ago by Marcus O'Donnell One of the highlights of #media140 was learning from the diverse examples of the way journalists from all over the world are using Twitter and other forms of social media and user generated content. It was particularly enlightening to hear from Al Jazeera’s social media director Riyaad Minty ( @riy) ... Image Conversations - imageconversations.wordpress.com |
| A Wide-Ranging Look at Beijing Street Food 2 days ago by Tim Carman Mark Furstenberg may be finding it a challenge to sell the world’s best street foods to Washingtonians, but at least he wasn’t hawking hand-held snacks in China during Chairman Mao’s reign. Some Chinese street foods were apparently lost forever under Mao. This fascinating segment, from Al Jazeera En ... Young & Hungry - washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry · Rank: 5,430 ·  128 references |
| Abductions, Chechnya, and Al Jazeera 2 days ago by putinania I found this story on my Google Reader, but the details were vague, and I was curious to see what other information I could find. A quick Google News search directed me to this story from Al Jazeera: Chechen rights activist ‘abducted’. A somewhat different interpretation from the first story, but no ... Putinania - putinania.wordpress.com · Rank: 183,717 · 1 reference |
| Riyaad Minty Sydney’s Speaker Pash (International Social Media Case Studies) 3 days ago by paulfarrell I’ve spent the last two days at the Media140 conference in Sydney live blogging for the event. This is one of the entries (many more to come hopefully) on Riyaad Minty, director of digital media at Al Jazeera, and his talk on reporting in Gaza earlier this year: Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media at ... Paul Farrell - paulfarrell.wordpress.com · 1 reference |
