Sri Lankan Chronicles Tsunami Aftermath Using Text Messaging And Blogs

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Tsunami Aid May Help Broker Sri Lankan
Peace

Tsunami Aid May Help Broker Sri Lankan
Peace 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 30 2004 12:28PM GMT

Tsunami Terror Aftermath

Tsunami Terror Aftermath 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
Information Week Dec 30 2004 12:30AM GMT

Amateur Radio Saves Lives In Aftermath
Of Tsunami

Amateur Radio Saves Lives In Aftermath
Of Tsunami 12/30/2004 02:49 AM
Technocrat.net Dec 30 2004 6:33AM GMT

Text messaging, useful at last?

Text messaging, useful at last? 08/20/2004 08:08 PM
Text messaging, useful at last?

nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/006013.html
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Text Messaging for AIM without the AIM
hassle

Text Messaging for AIM without the AIM
hassle 05/10/2004 03:05 AM
Tech-Recipes May 10 2004 7:15AM GMT

New record for text messaging

New record for text messaging 06/28/2004 09:56 AM
globetechnology.com Jun 28 2004 2:42PM GMT

Text Messaging Tricks

Text Messaging Tricks 07/27/2004 04:24 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 27 2004 8:22AM GMT

In the Philippines, text messaging is
c%l

In the Philippines, text messaging is
c%l 06/24/2005 03:23 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 23 2005 1:56PM GMT

Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging

Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging 05/07/2004 07:13 PM
AP via Daily Press May 7 2004 11:25PM GMT

Novel Designed for Text Messaging
Service (AP)

Novel Designed for Text Messaging
Service (AP) 07/12/2004 07:28 AM
AP - A Chinese author has written a novel meant to be read in 70-word chapters transmitted by cell phone text message.

Novel Designed for Text Messaging
Service

Novel Designed for Text Messaging
Service 07/12/2004 09:14 AM
AP via Daily Press Jul 12 2004 1:28PM GMT

text messaging and the return of the
thumb

text messaging and the return of the
thumb 08/13/2004 04:00 AM
All Thumbs, Without the Stigma .. NYT

nytimes.com/2004/08/12/technology/circuits/12thum.html
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Text messaging reaches new high

Text messaging reaches new high 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Last year was yet another record-breaking year for text messaging, and this year is set to be bigger.

Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging
(AP)

Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging
(AP) 05/07/2004 03:00 PM
AP - International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications — such as cell phone text messages — are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.

Game Boy to handle text messaging

Game Boy to handle text messaging 05/06/2004 02:21 PM
A new add-on will enable Nintendo's popular Game Boy Advance to handle text messaging, much like mobile phones.

Text messaging can be a pain in the
tendon

Text messaging can be a pain in the
tendon 12/26/2004 05:00 AM
Houston Chronicle Dec 26 2004 6:43AM GMT

What Else Can We Blame On The Internet
And Text Messaging?

What Else Can We Blame On The Internet
And Text Messaging? 09/01/2004 02:42 AM
There's plenty of blame to go around, though, it's certainly not new. In the past, we've had stories on people blaming text messaging for the divorce rate in India and poor turnout at movies. It's not just text messaging, though. The internet has been similarly blamed for the increase in divorces in the US. Well, now we can add the UK to the list, as they're afraid that both the internet and text messaging are contributing to the divorce rate. Meanwhile, we learn from Textuall y that mobile phone use is being blame d for kids having sex at an earlier age in Norway (though, I'm pretty sure this is a repeat of a similar story a few months ago where mobile phones were also being blamed for youth violence in Japan). Speaking of Asia, it appears that Koreans are worried that kids are exhibiting signs of addiction to mobile phones -- such as being worried that they'll miss a message or feeling anxious when not around their phones. One person even claimed to feel "phantom rings" where she would think her phone was vibrating with a call or text message when it wasn't. Of course, it always pays to be a bit skeptical of stories about people being "addicted" to some kind of technology. Too often, those reports come out from individuals or organizations who just so happen to offer psychological services (for a fee, of course) to help solve this problem. While it's worth noting the overall impact of new technologies and how they changes society, it's a bit worrisome when the technologies themselves are being blamed for problems -- rather than recognizing it's the misuse of that technology that's the problem. While some of these can be solved as people learn proper usage, it also sounds like there's going to be quite a large market for technologies that lessen some of the downsides to misuse of communications technologies. For example, in the article on the "addiction" in Korea, Carlo Longino suggests better presence information ("I'm busy") tied to mobile phones could help the constant need to answer a phone or text message as soon as it comes in.

New Text-Messaging Speed Record Set
(NewsFactor)

New Text-Messaging Speed Record Set
(NewsFactor) 06/28/2004 03:05 PM
NewsFactor - The technology-obsessed Singaporeans have claimed a new world record for keying in the fastest cell-phone text message after a competition held on June 27th in Singapore.

Text messaging could explode as voice
systems grow

Text messaging could explode as voice
systems grow 06/07/2004 02:44 AM
Boston Globe Jun 7 2004 7:28AM GMT

Iran sees red over election
text-messaging craze

Iran sees red over election
text-messaging craze 06/22/2005 02:07 AM
Also: Wireless Web puts personal data at risk

Campaign goes high-tech, shifts to text
messaging

Campaign goes high-tech, shifts to text
messaging 05/09/2004 02:21 PM
Sun Star Network May 9 2004 5:46PM GMT

ABC News, Telenor Launch Text Messaging
Service

ABC News, Telenor Launch Text Messaging
Service 02/11/2004 01:49 PM
Technology Marketing Feb 11 2004 6:35PM GMT

Text Messaging Destroys The Family Road
Trip

Text Messaging Destroys The Family Road
Trip 07/27/2004 02:51 PM
First it was people complaining that kids watching DVDs in the backseat were killing the spirit of the "family road trip," but now you don't even need a fancy expensive in-car entertainment system to lose out on all the joy of family bonding (fighting) in the car. Textuall y is pointing to a story saying that kids in the UK spend a good portion of time text messaging their friends during road trips. They also prefer to listen to music, rather than actually talk with their family, but I imagine that's been true since the walkman first came on the scene.

Building a Mobile Media Empire with Text
Messaging

Building a Mobile Media Empire with Text
Messaging 09/09/2004 03:17 AM
SMS Media Group (SMSMG) Strikes Content Agreements with Games Inc. (OTC BB:GMSI) and Russell Grant Astrology [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Tsunami: Blogs come of age

Tsunami: Blogs come of age 12/31/2004 04:44 AM
The Star Online Dec 31 2004 8:44AM GMT

Cell phones, text messaging 'force to be
reckoned with'

Cell phones, text messaging 'force to be
reckoned with' 09/27/2004 07:02 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Sep 27 2004 11:03AM GMT

TAIWAN: Internet, text messaging luring
girls to sex trade

TAIWAN: Internet, text messaging luring
girls to sex trade 12/17/2003 08:29 PM
Asia Media Dec 17 2003 7:11PM ET

Marketers see text cellphone messaging
as the next great advertising frontier

Marketers see text cellphone messaging
as the next great advertising frontier 11/16/2003 01:27 AM
Boston Globe Nov 16 2003 1:01AM ET

Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal
Chandelier Shown In Milan

Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal
Chandelier Shown In Milan 04/26/2004 02:45 PM

Cellphone text-messaging technology used
to encourage young people to vote

Cellphone text-messaging technology used
to encourage young people to vote 04/19/2004 10:59 AM
National Post Apr 19 2004 3:42PM GMT

Wolverhampton charity sets up text
messaging solution for young people to
get ad

Wolverhampton charity sets up text
messaging solution for young people to
get ad 09/09/2004 03:06 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 9 2004 7:50AM GMT

Xeni on NPR: bl0gs and the tsunami
disaster

Xeni on NPR: bl0gs and the tsunami
disaster 01/04/2005 11:55 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the NPR program "Day to Day" this week, I join NPR's Alex Chadwick to discuss the role of blogs in responding to the tsunami disaster. From first-person accounts, to amateur videoblogging, to tech aid, to fundraising coordination, to "citizen journalism" (nod to Dan Gillmor) that sometimes pokes holes in official government-isssue accounts -- we explore online voices around the world.

Li nk to archived audio for this program, expanded coverage on the NPR website includes pointers to video files and torrents. Link to NPR Day to Day home. This week, listeners in Boston are hearing the show on their local affiliate WBUR for the first time -- so, consider this a shout-out to Boston.

NYT, Fox News, others on bl0gs and
tsunami disaster

NYT, Fox News, others on bl0gs and
tsunami disaster 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: John Schwartz wrote an insightful piece for the New York Times this week about the role blogs play in covering and responding to the tsunami disaster. I was interviewed for the piece, but the people who really have something interesting and valuable to say are the ones over there, on the ground -- and the folks rolling up their geek sleeves to assist.

From relaying first-person accounts (like Sanjay/Morquendi's SMS reports in Sri Lanka), to kick-starting relief efforts (tsunamihelp.blogspot.com, and the Post-Tsunami Reconnect project), to questioning media coverage ( Ethan Zuckerman's post about Myanmar), there's a lot going on here The amateur-shot image shown here ran in the NYT story. Snip:

"At sumankumar.com, Nanda Kishore, a contributor, offered photos and commentary from Chennai, India: 'Some drenched till their hips, some till their chest, some all over and some of them were so drenched that they had already stopped breathing. Men and women, old and young, all were running for lives. It was a horrible site to see. The relief workers could not attend to all the dead and all the alive. The dead were dropped and the half alive were carried to safety.' His postings included a photo of a body on a sidewalk with a buffalo walking by. 'It now seems prophetic," he wrote, "for according to the Hindu mythology, Lord Yama (the god of death) rides on a buffalo.'"

Link to story.
Fox News did a segment on this subject yesterday. I spoke with anchor Jon Scott about some of the blogosphere reports we've been pointing to from BoingBoing in recent days. Here are video clips of the Fox News segment: Real, Windows (Many thanks, Mike Outmesguine, for TiVoing and kindly hosting.)

There have been a number of related stories out in the past 24 hours in the Wall Street Journal (Link, sub required), Libération (France) (Link), the Inquirer (UK) (Link), and AP (Link) . (Thanks to BB readers including Jean-Luc for pointers).

Tsunami survivors turn to bl0gs for
news, help

Tsunami survivors turn to bl0gs for
news, help 01/05/2005 01:33 PM
One Indian blog reports over 1 million hits as readers look for information on victims and how to aid devastated areas.

"Video Blogs Break Out With Tsunami
Scenes"

"Video Blogs Break Out With Tsunami
Scenes" 01/04/2005 05:59 PM

Duplicate posts in .Text bl0gs

Duplicate posts in .Text bl0gs 01/05/2004 11:31 PM
For anyone that noticed a lot of duplicate posts recently in .Text weblogs, this is not a SharpReader bug, but rather a result of some changes in the rss generated by .Text in a recent version. These changes are: <guid>, which went from http://{site}/{blogname}/posts/{post-number}.aspx to http://{site}/{blogname}/archive/{year}/{month}/{day}/{post-number}.as px <link>, which was changed in the same way. <description>, which now adds an invisible... (245 words)

Blogs Passing PR or is the Value Just in
the Anchor Text?

Blogs Passing PR or is the Value Just in
the Anchor Text? 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Simple question - surprising answers.

TECHBITS: Wireless dial-up, iTunes
pricing, Spam patents, Web on TV, Text
messaging stamps

TECHBITS: Wireless dial-up, iTunes
pricing, Spam patents, Web on TV, Text
messaging stamps 09/15/2004 05:24 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Sep 15 2004 9:10PM GMT

NYT: Blogs fact-check their own asses in
tsunami debate

NYT: Blogs fact-check their own asses in
tsunami debate 01/04/2005 08:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: Another insightful piece from John Schwartz at the New York Times about unsubstantiated rumors that spread online after the tsunami (example: Halliburton must have been behind it all). Story examines how bloggers reacted quickly to debunk falsehoods as they emerged, a sort of inherently self-healing trait evident in many online communities. I was among those interviewed for the piece, but as usual, others had far more interesting things to say.

[James Surowiecki, the author of "The Wisdom of Crowds"] pointed out that there is nothing new about ill-informed rumor-mongering or other forms of oddness. "There were always cranks," he said. "Rumors have always been fundamental about the way people talk, or think, about politics or complicated issues." Instead of a corner bar or a Barcalounger, however, the location for today's speech is an online medium with a potential audience of millions.

But there is another, more important difference, Mr. Surowiecki and others say. Internet discourse can be self-correcting, with near-instant feedback from readers. What was lost in the sniping over the Democratic Underground posting was the fact that the follow-up comments were a sober discussion of what actually causes earthquakes. The first response to the posting asked, "Earthquakes have been happening since the beginning of time ... How would you explain them?"

Further comments explained the movement of tectonic plates and provided links to sites explaining earthquakes and tsunamis from the United States Geological Survey and other authoritative sources.

"Not to make fun, as I'm sure it's not a unique misconception ... but the reality is simple plate tectonics," one participant wrote. "The entire Pacific Ocean is slowly but surely closing in on itself. What happened is that the floor of the Indian Ocean slid over part of the Pacific Ocean, releasing massive tension in the Earth's crust.

"That's it. No mystic injury to the Gaia spirit or anything."

I know some folks have their digital knickers in a twist over the story's headline (Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate), but I don't see anti-blog bias here. On the contrary, strikes me as a reasoned piece that traces how bloggers collectively sought to correct the record within their sphere of discourse. I would, however, like to point out that Mr. Schwartz totally missed the fact that an alarming number of blogs are in fact penned from corner bars and barcaloungers, thanks to the wonders of WiFi. Blowhards, unite! Link
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