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How to use social networks in emergencies.

Pietro — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:26:40 +0000

In the article: Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai it is explained how twitter, blogs and social networks gave mixed results in during the Mumbai massacre. I particular it is said:

As Twitter user “naomieve” wrote: “Mumbai is not a city under attack as much as it is a social media experiment [...] Related posts:

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technorati tag & rss

Pietro — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:03:07 +0000

Rss is somehow one of the best ideas. You can have your content, stripped of form BS being redirected all around. This gives a one to many structure. Now we need the opposite. We need to be able to pull the content from many sites in the same place, and check it. A many to [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...

From the 1st Italian Semantic Web Workshop

Pietro — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:13:01 +0000

I am at the Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives. Is the first Italian Semantic Web Workshop. It took some time, but finally Italy is moving along too. The talks are mostly in English, and more and more people here speak English really good, which use to be rare in Italy.

My first impression is that [...] No related posts.

More than del.icio.us: org.asm.ic

Pietro — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:54:16 +0000

You know, maybe because my father has been a journalist for so many years I have always been raised to appreciate the complexity of life. And yet I still can’t understand why do we need all this complex machinery.

I totally agree on the importance of the semantic web. And, boy, am I thrilled on [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...