http://cuindependent.com/2010/09/08/twitter-became-primary-boulder-fire-information-source/ The University of Colorado Daily Student News Site in Boulder Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://cuindependent.com/2010/09/08/twitter-became-primary-boulder-fire-information-source/comment-page-1/#comment-12554 David Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:22:20 +0000 http://cuindependent.com/?p=17444#comment-12554 There is a discussion about this and a list of other articles discussing the use of Twitter and social media in this fire at http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-mile-canyon-wildfire-and-social.html There is a discussion about this and a list of other articles discussing the use of Twitter and social media in this fire at http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-mile-canyon-wildfire-and-social.html

]]> http://cuindependent.com/2010/09/08/twitter-became-primary-boulder-fire-information-source/comment-page-1/#comment-12551 David Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:04:07 +0000 http://cuindependent.com/?p=17444#comment-12551 There was a lot to be learned from this fire - for instance, how quickly the community adopted the #boulderfire tag, and how the most useful resources seemed to win over the less useful ones - kind of a survival of the fittest. I also think there is a place for on-the-fly sites to aggregate social media resources (for example I created a page at http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/09/colorado-wild-fire-resources.html) which got many hits, and made people aware of other resources like the Google maps and audio scanner feeds. There was a lot to be learned from this fire – for instance, how quickly the community adopted the #boulderfire tag, and how the most useful resources seemed to win over the less useful ones – kind of a survival of the fittest. I also think there is a place for on-the-fly sites to aggregate social media resources (for example I created a page at http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/09/colorado-wild-fire-resources.html) which got many hits, and made people aware of other resources like the Google maps and audio scanner feeds.

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