Comments on: How Web 2.0 was used after Hurricane Katrina http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wikinomics – George A. Romero Unrealistic About Zombie Impact on Web 2.0 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-337997 Wikinomics – George A. Romero Unrealistic About Zombie Impact on Web 2.0 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/#comment-337997 [...] Clearly, George did not read Wikinomics. It’s true that big media would fall with studios being overrun by the living dead, and that bloggers and citizen journalist would carry on. But, all accounts we’ve seen of bloggers and citizen journalists suggest that the more eyes you have on a story and the more voices you have reporting, the less spin there is. In fact, the truth is usually obfuscated by big media, not the other way around. Moreover, in times of crisis, we’ve seen that small groups of individuals working together online have been extremely affective at mobilizing aid and sharing information – just think of the Katrina People Finder Project and other related initiatives. [...] [...] Clearly, George did not read Wikinomics. It’s true that big media would fall with studios being overrun by the living dead, and that bloggers and citizen journalist would carry on. But, all accounts we’ve seen of bloggers and citizen journalists suggest that the more eyes you have on a story and the more voices you have reporting, the less spin there is. In fact, the truth is usually obfuscated by big media, not the other way around. Moreover, in times of crisis, we’ve seen that small groups of individuals working together online have been extremely affective at mobilizing aid and sharing information – just think of the Katrina People Finder Project and other related initiatives. [...]

]]> By: Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-241625 Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:49:34 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/#comment-241625 [...] or curiosity to meet the communications needs of the participants. 9/11 moved to the mobile phone, Huricane Katrina of 2005 moved to the TXT message and communities on Craigs List but the 2008 Beijing Olympics [...]

]]> By: haydn http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-145577 haydn Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:41:28 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/#comment-145577 The real life network worked extremely well globally too. At the time I was attending an oncology clinic in Cork, Ireland with my wife. The oncologist was doing his bit to help organsie help for oncology patients in new orleans who could not find their oncologist or identify their records. I wrote about it for the Irish Times. You can see it at this url but sad to say you would have to pay a fee. Nontheless the concern for how the New Orleans health system would function reached our part of the world - without Web 2.0! http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2005/1004/1127148477037.html The real life network worked extremely well globally too. At the time I was attending an oncology clinic in Cork, Ireland with my wife. The oncologist was doing his bit to help organsie help for oncology patients in new orleans who could not find their oncologist or identify their records.

I wrote about it for the Irish Times. You can see it at this url but sad to say you would have to pay a fee. Nontheless the concern for how the New Orleans health system would function reached our part of the world – without Web 2.0!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2005/1004/1127148477037.html

]]> By: Komail Mithani http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-143889 Komail Mithani Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:15:33 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/#comment-143889 Thanks for the correction Thanks for the correction

]]> By: Dwayne Phillips http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/comment-page-1/#comment-143885 Dwayne Phillips Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:58 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/how-web-20-was-used-after-hurricane-katrina/#comment-143885 First, New Orleans wasn't destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Parts of New Orleans were flooded when a levy failed. The cause was years of political cronies on the Levee Board. Please start blog posts with facts instead of falacious newspaper headlines. First, New Orleans wasn’t destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Parts of New Orleans were flooded when a levy failed. The cause was years of political cronies on the Levee Board. Please start blog posts with facts instead of falacious newspaper headlines.

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