- From: Mischa@Garlik <mischa.tuffield@garlik.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:34:43 +0100
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
Hello Harry/All, Yeah I live with Patrick Sinclair one of the BBC linked data folk (a Soton uni connection) and know most of the other SW enthusiasts at the beeb. I will ask around an report back on what I find on the telecon this week. Regards, Mischa Sent on the move On 3 Aug 2009, at 14:17, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Mischa > Tuffield<mischa.tuffield@garlik.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> Having caught the pig flu, and as a result cancelling my holiday to >> Iran (a >> lonely tear trickles down my cheek), I have been giving some >> thought to how >> the recent events surrounding the #IranElections (sorry) could help >> educate >> the Social Web XG. >> I would be interested to hear how reporters from news agencies >> which use >> user generated content taken from SNSs actually go about selecting >> information which they then propagate as news. The BBC's world >> service has >> an Iranian (Persian) [4] division and one of the producers talked >> about the >> this on the BBC worldservice's digital planet podcast [1] (should be >> accessible from outside the UK - shout if it is not). Clay Skirky >> also gave >> a TED talk entitled "How social media can make history" [5], which >> touches >> on similar topics. >> Danbri blogged about extracting reliable narratives from the >> IranElection >> noise at the time >> [2]. And was a whole break session at a conference about Iran [3] >> at SOAS >> [4] in London recently, where by people discussed the role of SNS >> in Iran (I >> didn't attend, but have been told via a friend of a friend). >> Perhaps by chatting to someone which collates news based on user- >> generated >> content we could get closer to defining some more use cases e.g. >> around how >> to add provenance information to content when posting to a SNS. >> Would people on the XG find it interesting to hear from someone at >> BBC >> Persian on how they attempt to collate and use user-generated >> content to be >> broadcasted as news? If so I am sure I could find someone from BBC >> persian >> which is willing to talk about this stuff, and take questions from >> the XG. >> Just a thought ... >> Regards, >> Mischa *wishes he was in Tehran .... > > +1. I'd definitely be interested. Also, BBC UK has been employing some > interesting W3C Linked Data technology [1], so perhaps the BBC would > be interested more than many in using cutting-ede software for SNS and > data. > > [1] http://derivadow.com/2009/03/31/linking-bbccouk-to-the-linked-data-cloud/ > > [1] http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/digitalp_20090728-1036a.mp3 >> [2] http://danbri.org/words/2009/06/16/415 >> [3] http://www.soas.ac.uk/centresoffice/events/iranian-revolution/thirty-years-on-the-social-and-cultural-impacts-of-the-iranian-revolution-conference-programme.html >> [4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/ >> [5] http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html >> >> >> _________________________________ >> Mischa Tuffield >> Homepage -http:/mmt.me.uk/ >> FOAF - http://mmt.me.uk/foaf.rdf#mischa >> >
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