Twitter, Flickr, Crowdsourcing News

Twitter and other social media have been at the forefront of breaking news again today... A plane crash landed in the Hudson this afternoon. The news was out almost instantly on Twitter. Photos showed up just a short time later.

@jkrums posted the first photo of Hudson plane crash from an iPhone. Amazing photo! http://ad.vu/2hrc – he was in first rescue group.

A decent crowd sourced article quickly appeared on Now Public

What Happens in Vegas Gets Stolen

At the request of a fellow blogger whose camera was "appropriated" at CES, Read more »

See You Next Year

I've been quiet over the holidays, other priorities take precedence.

That will change "next year" (aka next week) when I'm at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

Until then, have a great new year.

Real Time News

So a Continental 737 went off the runway at Denver International Airport this evening. The right wing caught fire and the plane was evacuated.

Fortunately no one was killed, although somewhere between 30 and 34 were treated for injuries, with some taken to local hospitals.

There was a brief notice on the bottom of the TV at the local stations, but mostly the network programming wen't on uninterrupted.

The local news has now started interrupting network programming, they are now getting reports from passengers on board. Read more »

Video Doesn't Have to Be Expensive

A couple of months ago I wrote about training sales reps.

In that post, told about a video a manufacturer sent us that had no video "production value," but was valuable to us for showing how the product was actually used.

I just read on Presentation Zen about this video that won the best film award at Tropfest NY 2008. Tropfest is known as "the world's largest short film festival." Read more »

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