Sichuan Earthquake Rocks China

12 May 2008

Earlier this morning, a major earthquake rocked a large part of China. Immediate reports began to appear via Twitter and video postings. Global Voices has an outstanding post on the variety of ways that news from China has come in over the Net.

For example, the earthquake is already up on Wikipedia. And this is just one of many videos online capturing the quake in real time. What do you consider the benefits — or drawbacks — of these delivery methods?

Allison Fine

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Why “beta”?

18 April 2008

Gmail is still in beta. Yahoo! Messenger is still in beta. So if everyone else is doing it, why can’t we put our paper out there in beta?

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Kari Dunn

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