Comments on: Bizarre facettes of war in social media

By: Matt VanDyke meets Voices 4 Libya | Voices 4 Libya

Matt VanDyke meets Voices 4 Libya | Voices 4 Libya — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:05:01 +0000

[…] mentioned how important Gerhard‘s reports were to us. Zorica told of how she and her husband relied on his assurance of safety when […]

By: Paul Duffy

Paul Duffy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:33:12 +0000

I read Gerhard Heinz right through the blog. For me he was probably not miltary trained he was too blood thirsty, often got it wrong particularly after the fall of tripoli.

I do not thing he represented anybody but himself and often used other names to say how great he was. I think it is possible he was a pimply lone teenager or somebody in a mental institution. Whatever his reports could not be relied on. I first became skeptical of his report when he reported ‘helis over …..’ when no helis no yet been deployed. The saddest thing about Gerhard Heinz phenomina was that he had so many people sucked in.

By: dan parks

dan parks — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:13:08 +0000

Gerhard is just a person who spends a lot of time gathering info from blogs and pretending he works for some government agency. many people have given the same info that he has, but he seems to have a cult following that “like” every illegible statment he makes many times over. Gerhard is al Jazeeras vry own Frank Abagnale Jr. blogger.

By: benina

benina — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:18:14 +0000

thank you Gerhard, thank you Mcc…from FF of Jalu

By: JudgeDread

JudgeDread — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:27:10 +0000

Gerhard Heinz is a phoney.
If you read his dribble going back months, most of predictions have not been correct at all. In fact he’s rarely correct, unfortunately a lot of users have been taken in due to the lack of real times news in circulation or the human desire to hear positive spin.
Some are just blatent lies, like the US Apaches helicopters and that Nato now have 60 of them, when its known that helicopter force is no more than 30.

If anything, Gerhard Heinz might be ficitious user and a plant by Nato to spread disinformation.

By: mcc_FREE_LIBYA

mcc_FREE_LIBYA — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:09:31 +0000

Hi Sebastian,

I moved with my maps 2 another host.
Much better navigation now.

Now u find my maps here:
http://www.iimmgg.com/gallery/g2e92a1cbfca60c0e50261d43c2df95a0/

Features on IIMMGG:
- u can view in full-size
(just click the pic u want 2 view and click on the new opened down-scaled pic again 2 open the pic in its original-size)
- u can use shortcuts while viewing the maps
(”k” = next, “j” = previous, g = view gallery)
- u can download and save a single map by right-clicking on the map u want and choosing “save as” or by choosing
“download this picture”
OR u can download the complete gallery by clicking on “download this gallery as an zip-archive”
while u r viewing a picture of the gallery.

hope u like it.

By: 45south45

45south45 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:23:22 +0000

Hi again Sebastian
So glad to see the reference to mcc’s maps here. They are very helpful for all of us following the action in Libya.

By: 45south45

45south45 — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:15:03 +0000

Perhaps worth pointing out that many besides Gerhard bring news to the Libyan blog, and it is the accumulation of information that the bloggers use when making their judgments about how to support Libya — which is the aim of the core group of bloggers and most of those who join them in this ‘watch with Libya’. Just be aware, sebastian, that we do wish those such as yourself who quote our friends on the blog on other sites to take the AJE terms and conditions seriously.

By: mcc_FREE_LIBYA

mcc_FREE_LIBYA — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:21:32 +0000

Hi Sebastian,
I have a gift 4 u
I started creating maps so that ppl can better understand whats happening at fronts.
U can find my NAFUSA MOUNTAINS-front-maps @
http://imageshack.us/g/269/lbmnmf00.jpg/

00 is the title-page.
U cann ses on it numbered areas (1-6) which r marked by red lines.
Just pick the area u want 2 have a more detailed view and just go 2 the page which has the matching number on it.

Feel free 2 drop feedback in moussa-chat.
Enjoy!

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:41:49 +0000

Thank you Moussa for your stanzas! I’ve enjoyed a few more on your Another Statement page. Unfortunately, you won’t get much help in spreading the word from search engines, since you output the content client sided. For example, Google indexed this page’s content as “This web page requires a JavaScript enabled browser”. That means, it won’t be found via keywords matching the stanzas delivered to browsers with JavaScript.

As for the missing truth in press output, there’s another aspect: lack of time and resources to maximize profit. It’s so much easier to rephrase a Reuters Factbox, throwing in idiotic conclusions breed in a clueless journalist’s lonly brain cell, than spending hours, days or even weeks with research.

I could vomit all over the Interwebz when I find boilerplates that Reuters doesn’t update for weeks –even when the facts on the ground have developed hugely– in each and every article published on this friggin’ planet.

Also, there’s massive censoring, see this example: Western media are guilty of massive self-censorship, providing only lopsided coverage about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Professional journalism is sooo last century. Biased laziness is the new freedom of the press. So citizen reporters fill the gap. It’s just sad that so few folks can find their information.