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Another batch of “Interesting Tweeple”.

This article is crossposted to Twexpert and the Wardman Wire.

This is my first batch of “Interesting Tweeple”. I’m starting gently - here are 5 feeds to read, and the Twitter Grader tool.

This article is crossposted to Twexpert and the Wardman Wire.

From today I’ll be starting a nearly daily (i.e., when I’m not indisposed) lunchtime feature introducing some of the new organisations and people who are coming onto Twitter, or who have twitter-streams that usually include interesting links and comments.

It should usually be at midday, and it starts today.

This is a very quick tip that adds value while taking up no time at all.

If you use the bit.ly service to shorten your links on Twitter (or for any other purpose), you can just insert /info/ into the url to get a graph of how many clicks there have been.

Back in June 2008, one of the key “quiet” news sources for Bloggers and Journalists tracking the Zimbabwe elections was a Twitter feed run by the Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group alongside their blog Sokwanele (”Enough is Enough”).

I ran a Flick-R photo feed about abuse and violence meted out by Robert Mugabe’s followers to those opposing his regime in the elections in Zimbabwe for several weeks.

Bur the Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/sokwanele was the place for breaking news. Here are the entries from late May covering the detention of Morgan Tsvangirai.

Here’s the Tweet that broke the news.

This is the first of two or three posts responding to the Convention on Modern Liberty.

Rather than going down to London, I stayed at home working and followed the stream of messages from the conference and external observers. This first piece highlights new insights from watching the conference alongside the “Labour 2.0” online campaigning conference held in London on the same day via the comment streams on Twitter and video.

But I start with a description of the mechanisms and services that I used to follow the conversation from the East Midlands, and a few thoughts about their importance.