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!
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.
You pointed to his tweets above:
http://blog.perfectspace.com/2007/10/23/helping-people-everywhere-through-the-san-diego-fires/