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SoCal Fires: Why New Web isn’t Trivial

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

One of our readers pointed me to this mashup created by KPBS in San Diego that combines critical evacuation information like neighborhoods affected, closed roads, nearest evacuation center, etc. Yahoo News has a story on the mashup too.

This post has two points: 1) To spread the word ... Continue reading »

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  • Thanks for the links, Jake.

    We're actually working our way through some best practices on how to use blogs as "online newsrooms." We run http://redcross.wordpress.com as a portal, linking to active operations, but we try to have a separate site specific for each big disaster.

    http://redcrosswestwildfires.wordpress.com
    http://pensacolaredcross.wordpress.com

    With multiple authors and a faster, more flexible publishing interface, we can at least stay with 24-hour news cycles.
  • Ike: You guys do great work, and this is a stellar example of real-world uses for New Web technologies. Blogs, Twitter, social networks need to get into the consciousness as ways to communicate more effectively.
    Awesome, all the best.

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