Creating an online newswire: It started with a task I set myself to find information on pirates in Somalia and filter it in a meaningful, but automated way, and send the result out to Twitter and other public facing websites as a kind of niche newswire. @somaliapirates was the result. And it continues to publish news on piracy off the Horn of Africa for those who are obsessed with that story. I then decided to try and create a number of "country wires" - I made about 30 of them - such as @iranwire, @pakistanwire, @afghanistanwire, @congowire and @rwandawire. Each...
