Discussion of on-line matters with Jim Mora on Critical Mass started with how on-line media complemented the MSM in coverage of the Christchurch earthquake.
Facebook, Twitter and blogs helped people connect with family and friends and also mobilise volunteers and equipment to help with recovery effort.
Among the many blog posts was one in which Brian Edwards and Judy Callingham wrote of how Twitter brought us news that our family in Christchurch was safe.
Another which caught my eye was Not PC, who wrote of the tragedy and included descriptions of what happened to the buildings.
Many bloggers in Christchurch didn’t have power or internet connections at first but started posting when they could and their accounts provide a powerful human record of the quake and its aftermath.
It might be just as well they didn’t read the problem with memoirs first. In this column Neil Genzlinger, a staff editor at the New York Times writes disparagingly on memoirs written by people with nothing much to say.
One of those whose memoir he disparages, Sean Manning, responded in the Daily Beast.
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