ABC’s ‘Day of Giving’ to Help Hurricane Sandy Victims: Live Blog. Nov 5, 2012 7:06am Disney and ABC have teamed up with the American Red Cross for a “Day of Giving” to raise money for hurricane relief efforts. On Monday, starting with “Good Morning America” and ending with “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” ABC shows gave viewers the chance to help those devastated by the storm by making a contribution to the American Red Cross. Today on “GMA,” Josh Elliott announced that ABC viewers had donated a total of $15,663,327 to Sandy relief efforts through the “Day of Giving.” “On behalf of all of us here at ABC, we very very much appreciate it,” Elliott said. The chance to contribute to the Red Cross and add to to that total has not ended, however. TEXT: Text ABC to 90999 to give a $10 donation to the Red Cross.ONLINE: Go to www.redcross.org/abc to make a donation of any amount.BY PHONE: Call 1-800-HELP-NOW. 8:30 AM: The grand total is in!
10:00PM: We’ve raised $11,851,911 from viewers and with the Samsung match of $3 million, we are now at $14,851,911 as of 9:30 pm ET. Blogging For Japan – Help Raise Money for Tsunami Victims | freewheelings.com. This page is dedicated to helping the survivors of the Friday 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan by channeling international donations to local efforts. The earthquake and tsunami have caused extensive and severe damage in Northeastern Japan, over 7,500 people have been confirmed dead and another 11,000 are missing, and millions more affected by lack of electricity, water and transportation.
The images of the destruction and suffering have shocked the world. However, with the World Bank reporting over 235 billion USD in damages and families torn apart there is a need for everyone to help both financially and emotionally. How You Can Help A lot of people around the world want to help and have been donating to various international organizations (mainly the American Red Cross). If you are unable to donate we ask that you Share this Page with your friends, family and coworkers through e-mail, facebook, twitter or any other outlet you can think of. Japanese Organizations We Trust. In Times of Crisis, People Turn to Internet. The Internet has offered a lifeline for those looking for information and to provide assistance following the disaster in Japan.
As the tsunami ravaged the Japanese coastline, waves of images were also soon hitting the web. Hundreds of people commented on the videos across the web and shared information, from social network giant Facebook to micro-blogging site Twitter. Google's people finder service also helped locate loved ones and offered help and support to survivors. The earthquake off the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami has proven, yet again, how the Internet offers an information lifeline to the world in a time of crisis. The Internet was designed so that U.S. military communications could withstand a nuclear war, but is proving equally resilient in the face of natural disasters and even seismic shifts in global politics.
Looking to help the victims of the disaster in Japan? The site was updating, in English and Japanese, by the hundreds every few minutes. Social Media Helped Find Loved Ones After Marathon Bombing : The Two-Way. Hide captionA runner uses his cellphone after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Alex Trautwig/Getty Images A runner uses his cellphone after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday. In the chaos and mayhem that followed the Boston Marathon bombing, many people were frantic to learn the fate of friends and loved ones who were either in the race or watched it from the sidelines. But heavy cellphone use caused frustrating delays and congestion in the system, prompting the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to tweet: "if you are trying to reach friends or family and can't get through via phone, try texing instead (less bandwidth).
" Later, MEMA tweeted the Boston mayor's hotline number for locating individuals. With cellphones mostly not working, marathoner Sara Bozorg and her boyfriend went home and logged onto Facebook, where she posted that she was OK. "I felt so bad," Jeske told the AP. Others used Google's Person Finder website. KTVI-TV in St. Pinterest vs Scoop.It | Tech Talk | Tech Talk. Both work the same - neither offer SEO or tags in any way shape or form in order for you to be found on search engines. They are simply only online magazines. Scoop.It charges for upgrading to higher packages (which do not offer true benefits: those benefits should all be coming free directly from your WordPress website/blog), where Pinterest is solely free, even when upgrading to their business accounts. With Scoop.It you "curate content" on a "specific topic" instead of having "many boards and categories" on Pinterest.
Thus having Scoop.It helps you maintain your goal of being your local real estate expert rather than being on Pinterest and having many posts scattered across different boards for folks to find and follow. They simply find all their local real estate info on your one feed from Scoop.It. Focusing on content - which we all know content is king,Scoop.It also includes your own keywords you type in - Pinterest does not. So which is better? Three Reasons Pinterest Is Great, According To David Pogue. Lolcats: A Sign of Human Cultural Progress. Clay Shirky makes a very compelling argument for why internet memes and the other creative collaborative phenomena of the internet (like Wikipedia) can be seen as an impressive human achievement, and a sign that our society has made a significant leap forward.
He draws a distinction between our current cultural setting and that of the pre-internet era, based on the ability of the internet to give us a “media landscape that lets us work collaboratively, cooperatively, cumulatively.” The range of creativity is not limited to the civic-ly valuable actions. But even if we take Lolcats and we stipulate, as the lawyers say, that this is the stupidest possible creative act… the stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act.Doing something is different than doing nothing. The internet as the next distinct stage of human cultural evolution? It’s not like, as bloggers, we don’t have anything invested in promoting this idea. (via Neatorama.)
How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? Eons ago when I was taking the Freshman web design course in college (okay, it was only 4 years ago) I was taught about the acronym of all acronyms, the one by which all other web design acronyms were judged. We learned that good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity, and when Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you positive reinforcement. Okay, that last part was made up, sorry. “Crappy work” is probably not a term of endearment but rather an indication that your pixels smell. There are various examples of what C.R.A.P. means on the web (Robin Williams first coined the acronym), but for me it’s this: Contrast Elements that aren’t the same should be very different so they stand out, making them “slightly different” confuses the user into seeing a relation that doesn’t exist.
Contrast This screenshot is a good example of bad contrast on the web. Repetition Alignment Proximity. Legal journalists : Twitter handles must be readily available. LexBlog Network (LXBN) Twitter List of Legal Reporters (excerpt) Reporters with the ABA Journal, ALM publications, and the like need to make their Twitter handles readily available. Preferably by displaying them next to their name and email in the byline. I am a veracious reader of news, insight, and information via my news reader. I share on Twitter what I believe helpful to the legal and business communities. Wanting to give credit where credit is due, I attribute the story or post shared to the reporter or blogger. I do this by including their Twitter handle. It’s also a nice way to build relationships with reporters and bloggers. And the reporter and blogger to have someone who shares stories they’ve written with their trusted audience. It drives me mad to have to search in Google and Twitter and find nothing for a legal reporter’s Twitter handle.
But there are many legal reporters whose Twitter handles I cannot find. Helpful Hints to Help You Evaluate the Credibility of Web Resources. Anyone, in theory, can publish on the Web; therefore, it is imperative for users of the Web to develop a critical eye to evaluate the credibility of Internet information. Searching for sources on the WWW involves using a search engine, a directory, or some combination of these two. Because there is so much information on the Web, good and bad, finding what you want is not an exact science and can be time consuming. According to Nicholas C. Burbules, "....the Web is not an ordinary reference system; it poses some unique and, in many respects, unprecedented conditions that complicate the task of sorting out dependable from undependable information--and even complicates the notion that we have a clear sense of that distinction.
Developing a keen sense of the credibility of sources, based on such clues as connection of author to the subject, audience, source of publication, and documentation of supporting evidence, can also help you evaluate print and other types of sources. 1. 2. 3. 4. Why We Need "Curators" If You Use the Web, You Are a 'Curator' When you were four, you imagined "engineers" as men in striped overalls who shouted "all aboard! " from trains. Later you learned that most engineers study more than just locomotives: mechanics, chemicals and even complicated structures like roller coasters.
Similarly, you pictured "curators" as snobby museum employees who talk about brush strokes and Impressionism. Today, however, curation encompasses a whole new catalog of professions, brands and tools — and most revolve around the web. A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand. And since people create 571 new websites every minute, tweet 175 million times per day and upload 48 hours of new video each minute, a curator's work is never done. "Guess what? Censorship. Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web | Wired Magazine.
Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room. Udi Manber, Google’s head of search since 2006, leads the proceedings. You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax.
The Filter Bubble. Cognitive Surplus visualized. #.UjvCiqO-3JE. The map of the Internet Like any other map, The Internet map is a scheme displaying objects’ relative position; but unlike real maps (e.g. the map of the Earth) or virtual maps (e.g. the map of Mordor), the objects shown on it are not aligned on a surface. Mathematically speaking, The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other. Charges and springs To draw an analogy from classical physics, one may say that websites are electrically charged bodies, while links between them are springs. Also, an analogy can be drawn from quantum physics.
Anyway, the real algorithm of plotting The Internet map is quite far from the analogies given above. Semantic web The Internet Phenomenon. Interruptions decrease individual performance, but not group performance. Why is it that journalists seem to generally pick up on some new study of human cognition and act as if no earlier studies exist? Take this example, where Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson combine their talents to tell us about new research on the impacts of interruptions: Do interruptions make us dumber?
Quite a bit, according to new research by Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab.There’s a lot of debate among brain researchers about the impact of gadgets on our brains. Most discussion has focused on the deleterious effect of multitasking. Early results show what most of us know implicitly: if you do two things at once, both efforts suffer.In fact, multitasking is a misnomer. Hold on. Supertaskers are not a statistical fluke. This research is continuously overlooked, especially when someone comes up with some results that seem to confirm the conventional wisdom that a) multitasking is impossible, b) people are bad at task switching, and 3) it can’t be learned.