Me, myself and IRENE
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Ushahidi
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I find that over the years, media can work out either as a savant for the geographically removed or it can work as the boy who cried wolf, only amplified many times over. Take the case of the hurricane Irene. While reading business insider is an exercise in facing up to the worst that the world has to offer in terms of news and is a soothsayer of doom, digg expects you to be entertained in a manner that cracked.com lost its charm to the mainstream (hot soap actors and galleries). So which one you pick is strictly your decision.
The tweetboard up on businessinsider is a sign of how influential social media truly is. The countdown may be a bit of an overkill given that the hurricane has been downgraded to a category 1. I personally thought that with NY, the metropolitan icon of the World in the limelight, this would be a great attempt to pilot something like Ushahidi. Earlier in Haiti and Chile, Ushahidi was a postscript to a disaster - NY being just that, NY, there was ample scope for something more, something innovative that made lives easier - after all, isnt that what technology is all about anyway?
Read more about Ushahidi here
The Ushahidi blog here
The tweetboard up on businessinsider is a sign of how influential social media truly is. The countdown may be a bit of an overkill given that the hurricane has been downgraded to a category 1. I personally thought that with NY, the metropolitan icon of the World in the limelight, this would be a great attempt to pilot something like Ushahidi. Earlier in Haiti and Chile, Ushahidi was a postscript to a disaster - NY being just that, NY, there was ample scope for something more, something innovative that made lives easier - after all, isnt that what technology is all about anyway?
Read more about Ushahidi here
The Ushahidi blog here
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