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"Mr. Denton got some solace for the lost ad revenue: State Farm opted to sponsor the Tumblr blogs with the tag line "Backup Site Covered By State Farm" as well as information on how to file a claim. Insurers such as State Farm, Geico, Allstate and others are some of the advertisers that buy into disasters and have emergency funds set up to do so."

Failure by Carnival

Banjo is a mobile social discovery app that aggregates photos, statuses and tweets tagged with locations. But here's one way Banjo could shine: It's launching a new "trending places" feature, where users can quickly navigate to any place in the world where a flurry of updates are being posted. You can imagine this being useful for planned and unplanned major events, from festivals to natural disasters.

used in daily 6.17

app that tracks the movement of the user and gives feedback on better routes to take if they are in traffic.

An argument in favor of piracy - see SOPA etc

Discusses the role celebrities play in raising both awareness and money for disaster relief.

daily 7.30

People use social networks to get help right after calling 911!! 5% said they'd post a request for help directly on a response agency's Facebook page; 28% would send a direct Twitter message to responders. A full 70% said emergency responders should monitor social media sites, and half said emergency responders are probably already doing so. One-fifth said they post eyewitness accounts during emergencies.

15-second documentaries about the disaster in japan, will be a year-long project. makes sense to do these in short snippets due to the power problems over there :(