Obama's Digital Density: A Large Footprint from an Aggregated View in Berlin

Eric Gundersen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:15:04 +0000

Today the Associated Press estimated 200,000 people attended Obama's speech in Berlin. One of the iconic photos from this historical speech will surely be Jae C. Hong's (with the AP) image that you see above, a similar version to this is already on the New York Times website right now and will probably end up printed on the front page tomorrow.

The only thing more powerful than this picture of this amazing crowd would be an aggregated of collage of the 458 people that have their cameras in hand, which are marked as white dots here. At 1:00 am on July 25th, there are currently 1,060 photo's tagged with Obama + Berlin. You can be sure tens of thousands more will be shared and posted in the coming days on flickr and other sites.

Turn to New Media for Updates on Hurricane Dolly

AJ Herrmann — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:26:56 +0000

With the first big hurricane of the season touching down today, I knew we'd see some interesting news coverage. As I was scanning the chatter about Hurricane Dolly over lunch, a tweet by the Red Cross caught my eye.

My first reaction was, "the Red Cross uses Twitter?" I followed the link to its blog covering Hurricane Dolly. Although neither the blog nor the twitter feed is a great source for breaking news, I found it very interesting where they were directing folks to get updates on the storm: to the Flickr, Twitter, and Youtube feeds mentioning the hurricane from the public at large.

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Obama's Digital Density: A Large Footprint from an Aggregated View in Berlin

Turn to New Media for Updates on Hurricane Dolly