{"id":162,"date":"2008-09-02T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-09-02T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:21:08","slug":"micro-blogging-hurricane-gustav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/09\/02\/micro-blogging-hurricane-gustav\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Blogging Hurricane Gustav"},"content":{"rendered":"

A news item caught my attention about the recent Hurricane Gustav and blogging, including micro-blogging such as Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 James Jenaga, writing for the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, reports this:<\/p>\n

The fearful weather reports about Hurricane Gustav<\/a> did not persuade Sheila Moragas to leave Old Jefferson, a suburb just west of New Orleans. It was the 38-year-old mother’s dwindling ranks of online friends on the micro-blogging network Twitter.<\/p>\n

One by one, Twitterers with nicknames like “HumidCity,” “DomesticKitty” and “NOLADawn” pulled up stakes Sunday and left south Louisiana<\/a>, live-blogging the building drama through text messages on their laptops, home computers and cell phones.<\/p>\n

“It’s been helpful,” Moragas said. “It’s less hyperbole, more reliable. There’s also a lot of people panicking, but it’s neighborly. It feels like you’re talking to your next-door neighbors and trying to say, ‘What’s the best thing to do?’ ”<\/p>\n

At noon Sunday, Moragas, known as “NOLAnotes” to her followers on Twitter, decided the wisest option was to leave, abandoning the New Orleans area in advance of a massive hurricane for the second time in three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This story makes me wonder how differently disasters such as Heat Wave<\/em><\/a>, and the pattern of humans coping with disasters, might be in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A news item caught my attention about the recent Hurricane Gustav and blogging, including micro-blogging such as Twitter.\u00a0 James Jenaga, writing for the Chicago Tribune, reports this: The fearful weather reports about Hurricane Gustav did not persuade Sheila Moragas to leave Old Jefferson, a suburb just west of New Orleans. It was the 38-year-old mother’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}