Community Tweets in the SoCal Fires
Submitted by Holly on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 8:33am.
Flickr Photo From: thedpqThe fires in Southern California are a tremendous tragedy. I've heard estimates that up to 500,000 people have been asked to evacuate their homes.
As this is one of the most tech-saturated areas of the country, though, it's interesting to see how many individuals and organizations are turning to the web to organize, share, and emote.
I asked the NTEN community to tell me what they were watching yesterday. Here are a few of the things you told me:
Individuals on Twitter:
- http://twitter.com/nateritter
- http://twitter.com/compEyes
- http://twitter.com/Akira1980
- http://twitter.com/zenchaos
- http://twitter.com/techlifeweb
Organizations on Twitter:
Maps:
Blogs:
Many thanks to Rebecca, Camron, Don, curthopkins, Claire, and others for their links!
You pointed to his tweets above:
h-the-san-diego-fires/...
Thank you so much for spreading the word about my feed. Thousands of people (and hundreds of twitter subscribers) have now been helped by using Twitter as a tool. But it's only the beginning of citizen journalism doing a better job than mainstream. Here's some ideas on what could be done better in the wake of this disaster. I would love your thoughts on it.