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Remember say, 1996? When brave and crafty individuals cobbled (clobbered?) together pages with lots of blinky clip art?
And, remember 2004 when blogs were sprouting like mushrooms after a rainstorm? That was back before Twitter and Facebook took the wind out of blogging by making it easy to blurt whatever comes to mind.

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I accidentally bumped into this site whose purpose is “crowd-sourcing crisis information”. (Sorry; bad metaphor.) Initial deployments still in alpha, but should be interesting to follow in the coming months, especially in light of the value demonstrated by the Twitter platform during the recent siege in Mumbai.
Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

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