Comments on: Ushahidi After Mumbai http://conflicthealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/ Armed Conflict, Public Health, Human Security, Health Diplomacy, and Medical Intelligence Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Blow http://conflicthealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Chris Blow Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:19:23 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/#comment-399 It's been rewritten again! Now it is largely just a review of what happened (no pronouncement of a new golden day of reporting), including flickr and google maps review. The overall tone is positive again except they left the "endless cycle of misinformation" in as the closing kicker. It’s been rewritten again!

Now it is largely just a review of what happened (no pronouncement of a new golden day of reporting), including flickr and google maps review. The overall tone is positive again except they left the “endless cycle of misinformation” in as the closing kicker.

]]> By: Christopher Albon http://conflicthealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Christopher Albon Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:28:13 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/#comment-400 Wow Chris, good catch with the CNN article. It is entirely different today! And you are right about the aggregator vs. single application. I think possibly a mix of both would produce the best results. Wow Chris, good catch with the CNN article. It is entirely different today!

And you are right about the aggregator vs. single application. I think possibly a mix of both would produce the best results.

]]> By: Chris Blow http://conflicthealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Chris Blow Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:21:15 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/ushahidi-after-mumbai/#comment-401 Excellent points about Ushahidi. Certainly there is a way to go before we will be able to react in a meaningful way to something that unfolds this quickly. There is a plan for aggregating and mapping existing social media outlets to give greater visibility to the reporting that is already happening. The aggregation approach is probably the only way to capture this kind of activity (as opposed to making people use the application.) Certainly Ushahidi will not compete with Twitter, but could use it as one of many sources. This is already in the works in my understanding. Also, thanks for pointing out that CNN article -- you should check it out again! It's been completely rewritten today. Yesterday was celebratory bell ringing that citizen journalism has come of age, today it's a quite negative perspective that it is just "unsubstantiated rumors and wild inaccuracies" and "an endless circle of recycled information." Excellent points about Ushahidi. Certainly there is a way to go before we will be able to react in a meaningful way to something that unfolds this quickly. There is a plan for aggregating and mapping existing social media outlets to give greater visibility to the reporting that is already happening. The aggregation approach is probably the only way to capture this kind of activity (as opposed to making people use the application.) Certainly Ushahidi will not compete with Twitter, but could use it as one of many sources. This is already in the works in my understanding.

Also, thanks for pointing out that CNN article — you should check it out again! It’s been completely rewritten today. Yesterday was celebratory bell ringing that citizen journalism has come of age, today it’s a quite negative perspective that it is just “unsubstantiated rumors and wild inaccuracies” and “an endless circle of recycled information.”

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