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Special thanks to the medical staff @ http://www.animalemergency.com.au/ who are looking after @monkadooza round-the-clock - get well monks, we miss you

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Reading #HBS cases on #M&A options/collars and Martingale Asset Management: http://www.mgale.com/ #quant #investment

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@Hellblazer Martin & Tom's artwork/liner notes for #Monotheist also great, the Triptych stunning to see live in @PrinceBandroom #CelticFrost

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@Hellblazer I read Tom's blog regularly: great stark photos, insights on projects + vicissitudes of creative process #Triptykon #CelticFrost

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@TrevorCook I heard from Ben Eltham about it, we were discussing Lowy Institute and ASPI, and a response to the defence white paper

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@TrevorCook thx, sounds great, I studied defence, terrorism and security studies at Monash, like your Crikey work

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@barrysaunders @franmolloy @SilkCharm funding: journalists recognised in McArthur Foundation's 'genius' grants: http://www.macfound.org/site... #media140

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Thx @franmolloy, @barrysaunders & @Silkcharm for your different perspectives and views, time to go offline #media140

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Correct, @SilkCharm blogs/socmed can amplify --- some research in certain contexts need specific resources or to cultivate sources #media140

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@TrevorCook What is your PhD on? CIA-Iraq perhaps also due to failure of National Intelligence Estimates process: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarch... #Iraq

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@SilkCharm skills use not b. vs. j. --- e.g. Malcolm Gladwell on Enron http://www.newyorker.com/reporti... & 1998 student paper: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/parkerc... #media140

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@franmolloy investigations take time: RJR Nabisco/Bear Stearns (8 months), others (2-3 years), Dexter Filkens on AfPak (10 years) #media140

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@SilkCharm for instance, are you dealing with a puzzle (e.g. Soviet era missiles), or mystery (Al Qaeda): http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-... #media140

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@barrysaunders @SilkCharm @franmolloy --- many inv. journalists have significant research infrastructure far beyond solo blogs #media140

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True, @SilkCharm --- I am differentiating between blogs/socmed as publishing platforms/networks, & investigative skills/resources #media140

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Email to @jason_a_w on his #iranelection talk http://newmatilda.com/2009... with key points from #CPRF09 paper coauthored with #NewMatilda's Ben Eltham

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in some but not all cases, @SilkCharm good leaks use #counterdeception, and what about the 'madness of crowds' ?(Charles Mackay) #media140

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thx @smurray38 --- my point to @SilkCharm: leaks are usually foreground to larger org/political game - 'why?' & 'who benefits?' #media140

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@julie_posetti & @suzieis: more careful definitions, less grandstanding/polarisation, and examples would help bloggers vs. journos #media140

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@stilgherrian re: journos --- best examples are individual cases: e.g. Bethany McLean (Enron), Errol Morris (Thin Blue Line) #media140

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@SilkCharm you appear to be disenchanted with Deep Throat 'self-image' of inv. journalism, cf. Carl Bernstein: http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazin... #media140

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@SilkCharm Deep Throat was FBI's 2IC Mark Felt --- motivated partly by anti-Nixon politics --- so consider motivations for 'leaks' #media140

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Optiver http://www.optiver.nl/ & Tibra http://www.tibra.com/ battle over #HFT systems: http://www.theage.com.au/busines... #HighFrequencyTrading

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@TrevorCook fact-checking + investigative methods overlooked, current debate akin to Hedley Bull's Strategic Studies & Its Critics #media140

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nice work @barrysaunders you deserve the kudos from @adambspencer #media140

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@barrysaunders on Enron, yes --- why Bethany McLean & Neil Chenoweth are investment banker/forensic accountants #media140 #CPRF09

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@franmolloy agreed --- a paper @barrysaunders & I have for #CPRF09 Nov. 20 is on investigative skills of specific journalists #newmedia140

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thx @margaretsimons & @silkcharm for #media140 notes - see @HowardxBloom's new book on Human Narrative (HB was MJ's PR agent for Thriller)

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Applause for @barrysaunders: 'This bores me to tears, we had these debates 30 years ago. . . We forget the history of news' #media140

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@barrysaunders: 'Context is often lost in journalistic coverage. Journalism is to understand the value of context.' #media140

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