• John Breslin
• Fri, 08/13/2010 - 08:15
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Tom Murphy (contact tom@socialmedia.net) has worked as a producer/cameraperson specialising in current affairs and documentaries, filming in many different environments, hostile and otherwise, throughout the world. His CV as a cameraperson is here. Some highlights were covering the first moments of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on 9 November 1989; assignments in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia; and in-depth coverage of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including time spent in the Korengal Valley and in Helmand Province with the American military forces. More recently, he received a Polk Award for secretly filming in Burma in the aftermath of the Saffron Revolution.

My contribution to socialmedia.net comes from years of experience making filmic sense out of chaotic real-time events. New knowledge and insight is being generated in a similarly constant and chaotic manner, and I regard it a key part of my job to access what is really relevant in a constantly-evolving social and technological space and to make it accessible to our readers.

John Breslin (contact john@socialmedia.net) is a lecturer in the School of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, and co-leader of the Social Software Unit at DERI, the world's largest Semantic Web research institute based at NUI Galway. He is co-author of the book "The Social Semantic Web" (Springer, 2009). He is also the founder of the SIOC project (Wikipedia article), a Semantic Web framework which aims to interlink online communities with semantics. John has received a number of web awards, including two IIA Net Visionary awards in 2005 and 2006 for the websites boards.ie (Ireland's largest community site, Wikipedia article) and adverts.ie respectively.

I like to write articles on emerging social software and Semantic Web developments. I also like to provide a window for readers to various technology conferences and events by writing reports on interesting keynote talks and invited speakers.