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Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Riki — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:32:27 -0000

www.ynet.co.il

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Guillaume — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:03:56 -0000

I like this post, it shows how news junkie we have become since 9/11.
Hope we all take enough hindsight on the current events in Palestine.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Overstream — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:10:50 -0000

Also check out Gaza/Sderot project (http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/) -
on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hom...

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Paulo Querido — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:15:40 -0000

For portuguese people / Para portugueses, dossiÃª Gaza em
http://diario2.com/dossie/f...
ContÃ©m mediastream, fluxo twitter (pt e en) e recomendaÃ§Ãµes (link journalism).

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Jean — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:44:07 -0000

Thanks a lot for the article.

@engin, I agree.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Xavier Damman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:20:23 -0000

@Tom Phillips:
Tweetag is great for that because it allows you to have a view of all the different topics being discussed about #gaza.
And you can drill down by clicking on topics to only filter topics you are interested in.

Have a quick look at http://tweetag.com/gaza

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Yuri — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:52:39 -0000

Newsflashr provides all the latest coverage of the conflict from
many of the top news sources:

http://www.newsflashr.com/t...

The news search function also pulls from a wide variety of sources
including mainstream and social sites.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Tom Phillips — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:11:24 -0000

Interestingly, someone seems to be trying to disrupt the Twitter #gaza channel - there's a couple of bots churning out #gaza hashtagged tweets that are nothing to do with Gaza (they're just republished tweets from other people, with the word "love" replaced by "#gaza"). They're now dominating any search for it.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Andy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:43:05 -0000

Citizen-journalism sites like Demotix (http://www.demotix.com) are a great way to see these sorts of conflicts from a raw and personalized perspective - just what social media is all about.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

engin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:07:18 -0000

I would actually not follow and potentially filter out (ban) @fromisrael and alikes, since they are less about delivering news/updates and more about propaganda. You can track real time updates FROM EVERYONE at monitter, add filters like #gaza, #palestine, and #israel

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Jason — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:17:49 -0000

Hi,

Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/latestga... for latest Gaza news

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Ezra Butler — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:27:29 -0000

You can also get notifications of when Hamas indiscriminately fires either Qassam Rockets or Grad Missiles into 15% of the Israeli population on an hourly basis.

You can either follow @QassamCount on Twitter or (if you want to have your status on FB automagically updated, you can install the QassamCount facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/qa....

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Hannahkelly — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:37:20 -0000

Allvoices.com has set up a page called The Events in Gaza, tinyurl.com/97v9go - to which citizen journalists can contribute via their cell phone

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Matt Bilinsky — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:53:39 -0000

It's called assymetrical warfare and it's the crux of the problem for Israel.
And why they might benefit from some more nuanced, unorthodox tactics in
taking on Hamas.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Houston Freebies — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:48:28 -0000

When are these countries not going at it, what happen to the good old days
when one country defeated another and it was over. Tis a crazy world...

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Matt Bilinsky — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:21:55 -0000

Who's Talkin turned out to be a bountiful resource and was also great for
distributing my blog post on the conflict in Gaza:

http://chaosoutoforder.word...

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Twitopolis — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:14:03 -0000

The Gaza situation is also being tracked on Twitopolis.com as the current hot topic.
You can see it as http://twitopolis.com/hottopic

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

tyfn — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:30:02 -0000

Jenn, your articles are always well-written and informative. Thanks.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Xavier Damman — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:04:03 -0000

There is also Tweetag which automatically generate tagclouds of the most talked topics related to any given topic.
If you go on http://tweetag.com/gaza you can directly see that people are mostly talking about Ceasefire, rocket, hamas, ...
You can even put this "Gaza topics cloud" on your blog with the widget.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Basel — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:45:34 -0000

@Ravit, no matter if you like it or not, Palestinian Civilians are dying by the second. And you can't compare F-16s to firecrackers.

I would add the following websites:

B'Tselem: http://btselem.org/English/...
AlJazeera Interactive Conflict Map: http://labs.aljazeera.net/w...

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Stefan Asemota — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:47:24 -0000

One has to mention Twitscoop - http://www.twitscoop.com/tw...

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Jennifer Van Grove — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:34:38 -0000

Ravit, we're not taking stand. The post is about finding and tracking all types of related information as it happens.

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

genieyclo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:32:55 -0000

Awesome article, thanks!

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Jillian C. York — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:30:21 -0000

Ravit,

No matter how you spin it, the civilian death toll IS rising in Gaza. That's simple fact, regardless of Israel's intent.

Thanks for this article. To counter Dan, I'd say you should follow @sameh_habeeb, who is tweeting from the ground in Gaza.

Jillian

Re: HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media

Ravit — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:22:47 -0000

"The death toll rises in Gaza" is a miserable start to this article. So is your subject line. Perhaps you can also track the number of missiles that Hamas launched on Israeli towns in the past 7 years or the number of Skaads launched since the cease fire ended. As a tech blog, I doubt youâ€™re sufficiently informed to take a stand. Providing the various social media platforms and tools would have been sufficient.