Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
5 responses to “Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)”
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Fascinating example. The key piece, I think, is the role of mediation / curation in this and/or other similar forms that emerge. How much this is centralised and how much this is given over to “the crowd”? Which is why, as you point out, Swift River could be very significant.
Here is something I wrote a couple of years back on mediation http://richardstacy.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/the-curve-of-common-sense/ Made me concious I need to update my thinking on this.
Also – crystalising a thought that 2010 is going to be the year of community – i.e. the emergence of social (rather than technical) structures that start to give shape to the Big Bang of real-time data.
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excellent piece Anthony – we are just looking into build tech into the heart of our programmes to increase their efficiency and effectiveness, be good to chat this through with you as to how this might work from your p.o.v
cheers
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