Let's Go Live on the Scene!

Found via Twitter then Flickr.

You know your application is a success when it spawns rabid empathy and the desire to create images like this.

Twitter becomes an addiction after awhile. Especially if you have friends and followers who actively use the service to communicate and share.

Just today, the 5.4 magnitude Southern California earthquake was being talked about on Twitter while the old-coot media was still fumble-bumbling over the latest Amy Winehouse gossip.

It should also be noted that Twitter users had much more accurate information than the old media too. While they hovered in helicopters over Wal-Marts and affluent neighborhoods trying to locate even as much as a bicycle that had fallen over, Twitter users had already been informed that the quake was minor and no serious injuries or damage had been sustained.

When huge networks of connected people are communicating in this fashion, even outfits like CNN seem so... um, grossly outdated.

This is only the beginning for social media and social computing. The power of the Internet (and specifically social media) is something I only fantasized about way back in 1981 when I was learning how to work IBM card punching machines the size of Mini Coopers.

Me? I love the Fail Whale (or, in this case, the Prevail Whale). For me, it signifies evolution.