links for 2008-05-12

• The soldier who saw hell | Features | guardian.co.uk Film
  His testimony was shocking, yet he still believed in the war. The year was 1971 and Scott Camil, a marine just back from 20 months in Vietnam, wanted to talk about what he had seen and done there.
  (tags: vietnam wintersoldier war film review)
• The Last Bite: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
  The global food market fosters both scarcity and overconsumption, while imperilling the planet’s ability to produce food in the future.
  (tags: newyorker food globalism foodcrises)
• MediaShift . Microblogging Mania::Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News | PBS
  I’ve found that Twitter has gone above and beyond my original expectations in terms of usefulness, allowing me to obtain and share information efficiently. But Twitter has also proven to be a tool that should be used with caution lest it become the oppo
  (tags: twitter mediashift socialmedia microblog journalism media)
• Twitter / WorldEarthquake
  World earthquakes tracked on Twitter
  (tags: earthquake twitter breakingnews frontlinetraining)
• Tweetburner
  Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
  (tags: twitter tweetburner socialmedia frontlinetraining)
• The Chinese earthquake and Twitter - crowdsourcing without managers « Online Journalism Blog
  Round up of how Twitter was used to break news of the Chinese earthquake in Sichuan.
  (tags: sichuan china twitter journalism tweetburner frontlinetraining socialmedia)