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)