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31 very interesting things: 11. Year Zero

I've read a lot of books about Cambodia and I've spent quite a lot of time in Cambodia. However, of all the books I've read there's one that stands out, Year Zero by Francois Ponchaud. It's a very factual book, there are no frills and that is its strength. Click on the video above to watch a report from John Pilger. It has the same title as the book. However, that's not the reason I include it. I was very young at the time this aired on British TV, but I can still remember seeing the images from this report. For some reason the shots of the empty, litter strewn streets of Phnom Penh stuck in my mind. I didn't imagine I'd end up living near there and visiting regularly back then. I was probably too busy collecting Top Trumps.

links for 2008-05-09

• The Twitter Disconnect
  below is some background info that hopefully helps out newbies and also Twitter vets trying to explain it to folks. via strangelyattractive
  (tags: twitter frontlinetraining socialmedia socialnetworking journalism)
• Disappearing Act - WSJ.com
  "Nang Leong isn't just a market; it's also a keeper of Thai culinary heritage" Robyn, from the Eating Asia blog, about Bangkok street markets in WSJ.
  (tags: eatingasia wsj bangkok asia thailand markets wetmarket streetfood)
• TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice
  But does it work?
  (tags: twitter twitterfone phone mobile socialmedia)

links for 2008-05-08

• Reuters - Phones to make poor upwardly mobile
  “Three billion of the world’s 6 billion people have mobile phones,” Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said. “And three-quarters of the new customers are in the developing world. This is a huge opportunity.”
  (tags: mobile reuters phones mobilephone)
• Flickr: Julien Harneis' Photostream
  From IDP camps near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  (tags: goma congo drc africa flickr photography)
• Marumashi newsmap
  The bigger the square, the 'bigger' the story. Interesting way of visualising the news and reading it.
  (tags: marumashi map news media journalism search)
• 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
  Another interesting way to search and read news. All done through pictures. In much the same way as www.thewhalehunt.org which is ahrdly surprising as it was done by the same folk...
  (tags: news visualisations media journalism 10x10 whalehunt)
• Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know | Online Marketing Blog
  Not sure about the 'should' bit, but some interesting uses of the microblogging tool Twitter
  (tags: twitter microblog microblogging socialmedia socialnetworks)
• From the Frontline - Why Darfur?
  Charlie Beckett poses a good question. Why is the media so fascinated by Darfur and not Congo, Chad or Somalia or wherever else/ And to so little effect?
  (tags: somalia chad darfur africa conflict war journalism media mediabias)

links for 2008-05-07

• Global Voices Online » Zimbabwe: Using New Technologies to Fight for Democracy
  Great post bringing together a lot of info sources from Zimbabwe: "In countries such as Zimbabwe where media freedom is extremely restricted, new technologies have become powerful tools for political campaigning, communication, advocacy and mobilisation."
  (tags: zimbabwe harare mugabe zanu-pf africa globalvoices)
• Facebook 'more effective than emergency services in a disaster' - Telegraph
  (tags: facebook media journalism socialmedia socialnetwork)
• fabric of folly: The word on the web: 7 keyword trending tools
  (tags: trends web media tools graphics frontlinetraining)
• AP Mobile News Network
  The Mobile News Network – powered by the Associated Press – is a new multimedia service that offers access to local and national news from trusted sources for wireless users, wherever they are and whenever they need it.
  (tags: ap mobile news internet iphone)

31 very interesting things: 10. 41 hours in an elevator

Literally just came across this. Seems to have been a big hit for The New Yorker magazine,

Nicholas White got stuck in a lift. For 41 hours. link via Pods and blogs

Think I'd have gone absolutely stark, ravin' bananas. I hate lifts.

31 very interesting things: 10. American journalism

Quite old now, but so not wrong.

31 very interesting things: 9. Blade runner

Best opening sequence to a film ever. Sadly, I must admit I went to the cinema to see this upon its original release in 1982 and didn't understand a word of it. Funny how it should turn out to be one of my favourite films now.

31 very interesting things: 8. Saigon traffic watching

There's plenty more where this came from, but the one above is quite restrained. Quite peaceful. Pleasant even. Oh and by the way... did some Vietnamese newspaper write about me this week or something? Getting loads of email from Vietnamese folk and 4,000 hits a day or so which is double what it normally is. But, can't see a specific link driving that traffic. Oh well.

31 very interesting things: 7. Batman Vietnam stylee

Click the image above for a full 34 page 1960s rip off of a Batman comic in Vietnamese. I particularly like the back cover. Ultracool. Discovered via spynotes

31 very interesting things: 6. Inside France's secret war

On balance i think this was the the best newspaper article I read last year. Good to see the author won the Orwell Prize for journalism this year

31 very interesting things: 5. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

You'd be hard pressed to find a better opener. In fact I bet you can't

Is there something wrong with this advertisement?

Is there something wrong with this advertisement?, originally uploaded by noodlepie.

I found this while browsing through the latest edition of Food & Wine Magazine - which was very kindly sent to me. I helped out with the 2008 Go List. There's something not quite right about this advert. Or is it just me?

Going to London

When you order a double espresso at Toulouse Blagnac airport you get 'it' in two cups.

Life in Harare

I've cross-posted this on the frontline blog, but incase you haven't read this post on the Zimbabaloola blog... It is definitely worth your time reading,

For ten years ZANU PF loyalists have convinced themselves that the MDC and the democratic opposition was a creation of the British, the Americans, and the white farmers. Any black member of the MDC is a sell-out and an Uncle Tom. Zanu have rigged the elections over the past few years, but they’ve never had to rig extensively, and they were pretty sure that this time they’d fixed the problem for good. Therefore they were absolutely flabbergasted when, three weeks ago today, the people of Zimbabwe rose up and threw them out. link

31 very interesting things: 4. Too much too young

The first rock 'n' roll record I ever really took any notice of. I don't really read any music blogs, but maybe Fraser might want to play.