Comments on: How social media can rise above the trivial

By: gabriel

gabriel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:15:10 +0000

well thanks for the included report (disaster risk reduction report)..it was a pleasant read …

Andrea — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:10:22 +0000

Adi Gaskell — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:01:18 +0000

Looks like this issue is in the news at the moment. Seen a couple of stories on the use of social for detecting flu.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/1…
http://www.boston.com/business/innovation/blogs/i…

Paul Barnes — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:28:20 +0000

http://www.germtrax.com/ is also an interesting use of this.

Andrea — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:08:19 +0000

A major flaw with this is that not everyone uses Twitter.

Adi Gaskell — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:01:58 +0000

Yes I should have mentioned them. Thanks for sharing Nick.

Adi Gaskell — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:00:52 +0000

Good find, thanks Andy.

NickBlack01 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:00:39 +0000

I think this kind of stuff is great. http://www.sickweather.com/ is a nice public facing app in this field.

Andy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:59:13 +0000

This really has huge potential. Homeland Security are doing an experiment on disease tracking via social media.
http://www.livescience.com/24768-homeland-social-…