Comments on: Presence is Unified Communications Missing the Big Picture?

By: BroadDev - Unified Communications, Virtualization, Security, and Web 2.0 » Presence at the Heart of the Unified Communications Debate

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:49:16 +0000

[...] blogged about it a few months ago here and here and here about presence changing. Even Blair Pleasant who tracks the space agreed. Now [...]

By: John Furrier

John Furrier — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:41:34 +0000

Edward,
Another data point is the New Orleans Katrina disaster. The cell towers were out for days. Take the 911 attacks same thing. I wonder how new “presence to information” (as you put it) play into Unified Communications.

I do see these new platforms generating a ton of noise but they do bring news and information (signal).

Interesting developments for sure

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:32:41 +0000

Twitter works really well when everyone is interested in something all at once, and they all have something slightly different to say.

It works for that mostly because people are using Twitter for completely un-ordinary things routinely enough that there’s a critical mass of connectedness and attention to that channel.

When the Kobe earthquake hit Japan in 1995 - see

http://www.kanadas.com/kobe-quake/

for some comprehensive modern accounting of that - news was a lot more fragmented. I provide some contemporary commentary here:

http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/NH/95-01/95-01-23/0022.html

with this quote:

as has happened during other disasters it is not only the
physical network which gets strained, but also the network of people
trying to make sense of the situation and to communicate useful
information to each other and to the public (thus contributing to news
and not to noise). Add to that the terrible physical toll of those
working directly to aid the hurt..

By: tweetip

tweetip — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:27:31 +0000

more stats

1st tweets

Timeline ~ http://tweetip.us/lka98

Chart ~ http://tweetip.us/lkutx