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Following Fire on Twitter

August 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Citizen journalism has taken leaps since last year.
We are living in some smoke today, but safe. The big Santa Cruz County wildfire you have probably seen on the news remains  miles off and over the ridge.  I know, because I can see it on the Internet.
I found this  link to a satellite  fire map via [...]

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Twittering?

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Buckdata.com will soon be on Twitter?  Stay tuned.

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Middle Class Becomes Twittering Class?

February 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Huffington Post does it. Raw Story does it. Obama does it, and so too, reportedly, do Republicans like Karl Rove. They all use Twitter.
Twitter is software which allows a registered member to send out very brief messages to others, either from twitter.com’s website or from a cell phone. Recipients can get the messages either on [...]

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Tags: It's about time! · Science and Technology