social networking
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Boulder fire: Awesome example of lightweight collaboration
Someday we won’t consider any part of this a failure. Social media play key role in Boulder fire – Lost Remote. When the Boulder Sheriff’s emergency alert system failed, its emergency operations center asked that residents use Twitter and Facebook to help spread the word of mandatory evacuations, reports the Boulder Channel 1 Blog. The…
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Some Thoughts on Human Editing of a Breaking News Event using Twitter
11:38 — got a mention to @ctatweet– “red line trains are being redirected above ground due to an equipment failure..” Checked the CTA Web site, there was no mention of it, I retweeted it right about by 11:41. 11:42 — got an email from info@goroo.com: Red Line subway trains are rerouted to the elevated tracks…
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Muslim MySpaces?
Government funding for ‘Muslim MySpaces’ « I’m Simon Dickson. Quoting from here: The funding will facilitate an expansion of Internet based projects, radio stations and web-casts which are locally run and managed to give young people spaces and forums to share their views and discuss issues such as democracy and shared values. By encouraging young…
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CIA is "catching up" by using simple tools to do big things
Please, God, let this all make a difference some day. At the very least, these projects seem the opposite of this mouthful that seems to have gone nowhere. Logged in and Sharing Gossip, er, Intelligence – New York Times In December, officials say, the agencies will introduce A-Space, a top-secret variant of the social networking…
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CTA Alerts-style system could ahve saved lives at Virginia Tech
The official line on the Virginia Tech report is that the University should have alerted people earlier. But the fact is that some plain-old electronic rumor-mongering and unofficial rush-to-post twittering would have done the trick, too. Report: V. Tech could have saved lives :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation Had university officials not waited more than…