I use quite a bit of technology in both my daily life and career. Watching some of the events unfold in California with the wildfires this week has again brought the collision of technology and disaster to the forefront.
This article about Twitter and disaster communications among social media is worth a read to see how information is being shared in an immediate fashion.
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1 Twitter at SXSWi for friends and tools | Jonti and Social Media Art // Mar 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm
[...] Fail. Yep, it passed. Now, I feel even more confident in my previously expressed interest in how Twitter can be used as a really simple tool in a natural disaster. But I think it’s true value may be in the short, 140 character updates we use to follow [...]
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