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Authors, sign in!There was an interesting piece on CNN yesterday as the terrorist attacks unfolded in India.
"With more than 6 million members worldwide, an estimated 80 messages, or "tweets," were being sent to Twitter.com via SMS every five seconds, providing eyewitness accounts and updates."The report goes on to day that reports of what people were seeing, pictures, and blood donation requests and details were being set out over twitter.
As Twitter user "naomieve" wrote: "Mumbai is not a city under attack as much as it is a social media experiment in action."The use of these fun technologies has been something our generation has used for quite a while, and politicos used throughout the campaign and on Election Day, its no surprise that the international community is as advanced if not more than the US is...Neha Viswanathan, a former regional editor for Southeast Asia and a volunteer at Global Voices, told CNN, "Even before I actually heard of it on the news I saw stuff about this on Twitter. People were sending in messages about what they were hearing. There were at least five or six blogs from people who were trapped, or who were very close to what happened."
I totally see this as a reflection of where we're progressing.
A group of Mumbai-based bloggers turned their Metroblog into a news wire service, while the blog MumbaiHelp offered to help users get through to their family and friends in the city, or to get information about them, and has had a number of successes.While its not an attack, the Inauguration is sure to be a great reflection of how we can use tools to better report events as they unfold.Flickr also proved a useful source of haunting images chronicling the aftermath of the attacks. Journalist Vinukumar Ranganathan's stream of photos were published by CNN and other major broadcasters...
A Google Map showing the key locations and buildings with links to news stories and eyewitness accounts, and CNN's iReporters flooded the site with their videos and images of the terror attacks.
Published November 28, 2008 by Sarah Burris |
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This is so true. I hope that we begin looking forward and figuring out how to be a progressive nation that moves forward instead of one that wants to stay stuck on today and yesterday.
When I asked one of my college-student friends if she had heard about the stuff in India, she replied, "Oh yeah...I read about it on facebook," then chuckled and said, "From the way I said that, you'd think facebook was a news site."
The younger generation is utilizing the new technology. Even if we're "old," we need to learn how to use it as well. Otherwise, we will be left behind...by the new generation...and by the rest of the world.
Posted by Janet Morrison
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November 30, 2008 1:10 AM
Posted on November 30, 2008 01:10