Live Blog
5:54: ===END=== Time for dinner and a drink!
5:53: Wrapping up
5:46: RT @rachellehoude: Twitter and YouTube are removing the financial value of information and its control through citizen sharing. Awesome & responsible. #smwnyc
5:45: AC: My father told me "What is true is not always fair."
5:41: More Q&A from the audience.
5:36: EP: Tweeting info while others weren't able to 'file stories' because of electricity outages.
5:32: "Take this, in case I don't live through this shit" EP as he hands over iPhone before climbing into rubble of a building.
5:31: Watching EP video from the first minutes after quake. Powerful.
5:28: First hand account from
5:26: AR: Haiti may be tipping point of using social media to save lives.
5:26: First use of "tipping point"
5:25: DWB: Use social media/crowd sourcing to pinpoint where needs are
5:18: AC has become "gatekeeper" with what she retweets... AC: "Everyone wants to use you"
5:16: AR: "global consciousness"
5:15: AC: Reporting has gone from "look how terrible this is" to "look how terrible, now do something!"
5:14: AC: Group of people with niche knowledge will drive interest from old media.
5:14: AC: "Niche knowledge"
5:13: AC Twitter joined broader community in raising and capitalizing awareness on a way that's useful. Sms donations
5:11: AC: How do we get people to know/care about stories that aren't "trending"?
5:10: Personally, I'd like to hit pause and explore "narrative arc" more.
5:09: AR: create hashtag #dontforgethaiti
5:09: "Narrative arc" - Insightful!
5:08: Create narrative arc via social media - to keep new audience engaged. Use 'grounds' to keep telling people what is actually happening ie: post-op care, surgery still needed, etc. Stories that effect people's lives long term.
5:07: DWB: Definitely going to leverage social channels to maintain support.
5:06: Yes, can exert pressure on government.
5:05: Ras: Can we use social media to keep attention / maintain support on Haiti?
5:04: Ras: Wikipedia page became 'hub' of Haitian Earthquake information, communication
5:04: AC: give people information and you give them power.
5:03: Rasiej: Most journalists describe themselves as journalists, not 'information hounds' - not in the information business, in the journalism business
5:00: Just thought of the web of communication used within minutes of the crane collapse in 2008. No Twitter, but SMS, email, phone to reporter, reporter to web - all within first hour.
4:58: AC: Many people in journalism have misunderstood the power of Twitter. "Why would you limit any opportunity to convey information to people directly?"
4:58: First use of "top-down hierarchy." Regarding 'old media' dismissing Twitter.
4:56: AC: Twitter needs to be used how "people who use Twitter want it to be." BF: There was a Wired article on this recently...
4:54: Rasiej "Can we look forward to the potential of "Twitter Pulse"?
4:53: AC: What happens when 9/11 type event is tweeted? Reading people's last words via a public forum. MAybe help investigators.
4:52 AC: with Iran images "really thought we crossed a line" No news organization would have run images that were tweeted.
4:47: AC: Twitter contacts became "overwhelming" and "very difficult" when Tweets started becoming personal ie: Need water __here__. "Wall" between reporter, audience broken down
4:46: AC: Twitter added "another layer" to reach out and connect in 'real world'
4:44: AC: dig at AT&T service in Haiti - inadvertent? Who knows, crowd laughed.
4:43: AC: "Road paved" "connections made" w Twitter contacts
4:41: DWB: Turned to Haitian radio to get message out to Haiti public, to dispel rumors. Old models still apply - must be evaluated in case by case basis.
4:40: DWB: Able to maintain a dialogue when they otherwise wouldn't have.
4:40: DWB: Chaos allowed more freedom to the information they were putting out
4:39: Also annoying, baseball people using the term "lights out" when describing a pitcher.
4:38: Personal question "Is there a better term than twittersphere or Blogsphere? Those annoy me like "Redzone" annoys John Madden.
4:37: On the projection screen www.tweetgrid.com - "Whoa, that's a lot of info!"
4:36: Rob Mackey/NYT: Iranian protest brought the "verification & identification" issue to the forefront
4:34: Andrew Rasiej - "Readers, I like to call them partners" reader/partner interaction
4:33: Network can verify
4:32: Twitter more so than web has 'degree of trust'
4:30: Does this change the news media ecology?
4:29: AC: "Twitter is teaching people the power of information" "positively as well as negatively"
4:25: Ann Curry: Twitter contact -> Phone Call -> Phone Interview on NBC Nightly News
4:22: Users starting to understand diff between 1st person and "hearsay" - location feature becoming valuable for verification.
4:21: How to filter through all the information, "remove all the chaff"?
4:20: Doctors were going to Haitian markets to purchase saws for amputation!
4:17: DWB -> NBC's Ann Curry -> US Airforce via Twitter in matter of minutes.
4:15: DWB and Haiti airport conversing via Twitter feeds
4:15: Cone: For us it's really changed the way we think about social media - 7,000 FB fans to 20k since disaster. Most important place to interact w public"
4:13: Twitter instead of press release to publicize obstacles DWB encountered - able to make noise about difficulties of plane landing, stir up support.
4:10: Comm. Director for Doctors w/o Borders is on the panel - Jason Cone. Let's make it good.
4:08: Follow this on twitter: #smwnythaiti
4:05: 15th Floor of the NY Times building, a hush has fallen over the crowd composed of internet geeks like myself.
