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LOC to Capture #sotomayor Tweets
The Library of Congress announced via their Twitter account, that:
LOC will capture tweets on #sotomayor for its web archives on the Sotomayor nomination. http://www.loc.gov/webcapture/Here is a list of some of the latest web capture projects they are working on:
Supreme Court Nominations 2009 The Supreme Court Nominations 2009 Web Archive will be a selective collection of Web sites archived between June 2009 through the completion of the hearings process. Web sites collected will include materials produced by watchdog, public policy, and political advocacy groups, blogs and tweets, community and religious organizations, foreign and domestic news sources, educational and research institutions, and independent websites. Collection dates: June 2009 through confirmation hearings. Indian General Elections The Library's Delhi Overseas Operations Office is documenting the ongoing process of India general election in 2009. Presidential Transition During a Time of Crises Web Archive Presidential Transition During a Time of Crises Web Archive will be a selective collection of Web sites archived between January 2009 and June 2009. Web sites collected will include materials produced by domestic and foreign political groups, community and religious organizations, advocacy groups, foreign and domestic news sources, and independent websites. Collection dates: January 2009 - June 2009. The collection will be evaluated prior to completion and may be extended.I would suggest they start archiving the tweets about the #iranelection (see earlier blog post) by James R. Jacobs. Continue reading
State dept asks Twitter to be eyes and ears of Iranian elections
Twitter, the 140 character social media micro-blog, was scheduled to go down for maintenance on monday night. But, according to the CNN blog, a little thing called the Iranian elections and a request from the US State Department caused them to change their scheduled downtime to yesterday afternoon from 2-3 PST (middle of the night Tehran time) in order to ensure that the flow of information from Iran remains open and that Iranians can continue to communicate internally and with the rest of the world. This is a pretty amazing development in that, despite the Iranian restrictions on journalists and news organizations, the world is still able to get up to the minute accounts - complete with video on youtube, hashtags on twitter and facebook. Now libraries just have to figure out how to collect, preserve and organize this massive flow of information ;-) Mashable has more on why this matters as well as a HOWTO guide on following the elections. Continue reading
Governments using Twitter – not a gimmick anymore
Air Force Calls In Twitter Air Strike, by Mitch Wagner, Information Week, May 22, 2009.
I thought the use of Twitter was a gimmick, but now it's starting to look like a real communications channel. It's tough to get a nuanced idea across in a 140-character message, but the service's ubiquity and ease of use makes up for its other shortcomings. It's easy to use Twitter to send a message, and easy for people to find that message. Social media allows government to take its message directly to the people, bypassing journalists.Continue reading
A new approach to history: Twitter
This may sound odd at first, but give it a try:
Welcome to TwHistory. We believe that history is filled with exciting stories. We also believe that these stories can be told through Twitter; through the people who lived and experienced them. We go through journals, diaries, letters, and other original sources to deliver the day-to-day lives of people who lived through some of histories most exciting times. We broadcast this information through Twitter, and feel this is a new and exciting approach to understanding history. Instead of reading about a month-long campaign in a few hours, you experience it over the course of a month, in small, 140 character ‘Tweets’.First up: Battle of Gettysburg with Tweets by President Lincoln and many others.
@ Gen_hooker: We have news here that the enemy has reoccupied heights above Fredericksburg. Is that so?A tip of the hat to Kate! Continue reading
Tweet Congress
This web site, TweetCongress, makes it easy to find your U.S. Senators and Representative, see if they tweet, and follow them and tweet them.
About TweetCongress.org We believe transparent government is better government. Twitter enables real conversation between lawmakers and voters, in real time. Find your representatives in Congress, follow them and give them a tweet full!Thanks to Sunlight Labs! Continue reading
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