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Wildfires again lead to creative communications
By WDavidStephenson | October 24, 2007
(I was originally going 
to say they “spark” creative communications in the headline, but that seemed pretty cruel under these circumstances).
I’ve found a few examples of creative communications approaches during the wildfires (as well as some biz-as-usual ones, such as cell networks crashing once again because people insisted on making inefficient voice calls instead of Twittering..):
- speaking of Twitter, Wired reports that San Diego residents Nate Ritter and Dan Tentler “… have been busy posting rapid-fire updates to Twitter as they gather information from friends and roam the streets to offer first-hand reports..”
- The Red Cross’s Wendy Harman is Twittering summaries of Tweets about the fires..
- KPBS is twittering its news updates
- Google’s Blogscope blog reports that KPBS has also created the above mashup showing locations of the fires
- there are more than 14,000 wildfire photos posted on Flickr (about 20 have geotags …).
- there’s a wikipedia entry on the wildfires, but I haven’t been able to find any wikis dedicated just to the wildfires, which, IMHO, are critical — I’ve done a couple of interviews about this aspect today).
Technorati tags: crowd-sourcing crowdsourcing smart mobs swarm intelligence emergent behavior networked homeland security collaboration location-based services geo-spatial web web 2.0 homeland security 2.0 disaster management 2.0 disaster management wikiRed Cross geotagging Flickr KPBS Google mashup San Diegodisaster planning disaster planning 2.0 wildfires
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