Note: This article was originally published in its entirety on my Postmedia News social media column. When Time Magazine names Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year and Hollywood releases a movie entitled The Social Network, it’s fair to say 2010 is the year social media came of age. And while Zuck made headlines [...]
Earthquakes (real and imagined), and unrest have dominated social media of late. First, the real earth shattering news this past Thursday from South America, via @mashable: “A 6.5- or 6.4-magnitude earthquake has just hit parts of Peru and Chile, and tweets are flooding in from news sources and folks who were affected by the quake [...]
From the vapid and vacuous to the profound and tragic, the social web proved its mettle this week in the face of the disastrous Haitian earthquake. The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake decimated the impoverished Caribbean island, snuffing out tens of thousands of lives while toppling infrastructure. Miraculously, what seemed to stay up were pockets of [...]
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