03/10/08
Facebook Is Extending Its Network to Blood Donations
By Peter S. Goodman
Facebook, the vast and expanding social networking Web site, is about to confront users with a serious new question: What’s your blood type?
02/26/08
Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter
By Josh Catone
It would appear that an earthquake was just felt across the UK (hopefully not a major one!). Where did the news first break? Well, we heard about it over Twitter. It's all over the site, including being broken on Twitter-based news organization BreakingNewsOn, which is reporting a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the UK with minimal damage reported so far. Where didn't we hear about the quake? The mainstream press.
02/01/08
Crisis Informatics
By Michael Byrne
As the world turned to CNN last April to watch the unfolding of the harrowing events at Virginia Tech, a tidal wave of information seekers turned to new and ubiquitous methods of getting more than traditional media can ever hope. Like tens of thousands of others around the world, Michael Byrne, co-author of this article, and his family logged on to Facebook.com to check on a friend who attended Tech, only to discover she had 400 unanswered messages, an early indication of her murder that day.
11/13/07
UCLA and MySpace Team Up for Emergency Communications
By Dennis D. McDonald
I recently interviewed UCLA graduate student Sara Cohen about an important project she has initiated: establishing an official system whereby UCLA will use a special pre-established MySpace page in the event of an emergency to communicate with students, faculty, community, and parents.
10/31/07
Tracking the quake on Twitter
By Chris Pearson
I’ve been tracking “quake” and “earthquake” on Twitter. There was a continuous flow of information as soon at the quake hit.
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