A twisted thought

It was a while ago, that I had a news feed on Mladic.
In June Bosnian Television broadcasted some video footage of Mladic taken during some family gatherings or family celebrations.

Here is a link, along with the footage (can be found on YouTube as well)

• Jutarnji.hr: Proof, Mladic lived normally after the war?
• The Independent: Mladic, the most wanted man in Europe?
• The Ney York Times News Blog: dacing, laughing, celebrating and playing table tennis
• Blic online: new, old footage

I followed only a few  comments briefly, because I can not bare to read some . There may be some old footage among the material, but his grandchildren were born in 2001 and 2006. The one, where you see him holding his grandchild can´t count as “old” as in in “before the war”.

In this age, with all the technology, there lies danger in the use of technology. Or with images being presented . Maybe in a few weeks or days the world will be presented footage of Mladic´s death? The appearance of death. To close the matter.

What if we are shown the images we want to see versus images that are camouflage?
Following the news, especially Iran and the clashes and demonstrations. The use of digital cameras, mobile phones and the instant publication on the net – we have the ability to bear witness, to some extent – to be involved. You can twitter, and suddendly there´s a new angle at that technology.

But, it won´t be long, until cunning powers see the advancement in installing or staging events. The very same companies that brought innovation can help or be used in another way.

twittering war criminals

with Ashton Kutcher having more “followers”  than CNN – oh well.Sign of the times.
I´am still working on it – being an illiterate non-twitter . With “it” I mean- instead of posting messages like “want more candy” I am trying to twitter up some war criminals.

Maybe certain services are already using this tool  – undercover, understandingly?

If only I was tech-savy enough to integrate it on my blog, for whatever use.

But in this connected age – what if services just like twitter, are used more and more to harras people? (as was the case with Courtney and…….) Being popular becomes increasingly important. Either you have followers or you don´t . As friends on Facebook. But for what cause?

Of course, all these tools could be used reasonably.