Posted on October 15, 2007 - by Justin Hartman
Using Social Media to track the Mondli arrest
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On Sunday the news broke that Sunday Times editor, Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker will be arrested some time this week. This is obviously a huge story for The Times and after a brief strategy session this morning we decided we’d try and use Social Media to track this major event in Media history.
After lots of coffee and the abuse of Nino’s Internet connection we’ve managed to track all that’s been written about this in the social media sphere. We’ve setup a dedicated channel on Jaiku which tracks posts from Afrigator, Amatomu, Muti, Technorati and Twitter.
If you’re a blogger and you write about this issue all you need to do is tag your posts with mondli and it will automatically appear in the Jaiku channel. If you’re not a blogger but want to comment on this issue you can also do so by visiting the channel and having your say.
We’ve also got a cool widget for your blog or news site that shows the latest from the Jaiku channel and you can grab the code below.
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<param name="movie" value="http://static.jaiku.com/images/badge.swf?
feedURL=http://jaiku.com/channel/mondli/feed/badge"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="http://static.jaiku.com/images/badge.swf?
feedURL=http://jaiku.com/channel/mondli/feed/badge"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent" width="200" height="330"></embed>
</object>
Join in on the free Mondli campaign and have your say now.
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October 15, 2007
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[...] make sure that your post is picked up by the Jaiku channel, Justin informs me that you must tag your post with [...]
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October 15, 2007
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[...] event in Media history”, as Justin Hartman, deputy digital strategist at The Times, puts it on his blog. The channel tracks posts from Afrigator, Amatomu, Muti, Technorati and Twitter – and yours truly [...]
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October 16, 2007
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[...] get notified when I post a new blog entry. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday I wrote a post called Using Social Media to track the Mondli arrest which highlighted my efforts in setting up Jaiku to aggregate what’s been written about in [...]
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October 16, 2007
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A bit Alice in wonderland, isn’t it — first free him, then arrest him?
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October 16, 2007
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A bit Alice in wonderland, isn't it — first free him, then arrest him?
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October 17, 2007
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Steve and now it looks like this arrest just isn’t going to happen. Oh well, that’s news for you…
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October 17, 2007
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Steve and now it looks like this arrest just isn't going to happen. Oh well, that's news for you…
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October 18, 2007
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That’s the problem with “Crying ‘wolf!’” — it’s a bit like George Bush’s preemptive “war on terror”. If you’re too preemptive too often, if there’s ever a REAL threat to press freedom, no one will pay any attention.
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October 18, 2007
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That's the problem with “Crying 'wolf!'” — it's a bit like George Bush's preemptive “war on terror”. If you're too preemptive too often, if there's ever a REAL threat to press freedom, no one will pay any attention.
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October 18, 2007
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Steve I think part of the problem here is that I don’t think the powers that be expected such a resounding response on this issue. To me it seems like they’ve backed down very cowardly to what were very serious allegations and threats.
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October 18, 2007
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Steve I think part of the problem here is that I don't think the powers that be expected such a resounding response on this issue. To me it seems like they've backed down very cowardly to what were very serious allegations and threats.