<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I finally succeeded in tracking down the full text of the 1-page article. <DIV>I'll provide a summary in class today. Here's the link:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol315/issue5814/index.dtl#r-articles">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol315/issue5814/index.dtl#r-articles</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- ram</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Ralph Walde wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Would this online article on humanitarian blogs, wikis , and tools for disaster recovery be of interest </DIV><DIV>for the class?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-12.html">http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-12.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ralph Walde</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The article makes references to two printed articles.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Shneiderman B.& Preece J., </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I>Science</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>315 </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. 944 (2007)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Nourbakhsh I., </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I>et al</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I>Nature</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>439</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. 787 - 788 (2006). </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">----------- ACM Summary of online article ---------------</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><B>Blogs to the Rescue!</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><B> Nature (02/15/07) Butler, Declan</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;">A policy paper written by two University of Maryland professors recommends that the government incorporate Internet "community" tools to better deal with disaster relief or similar situations. The online community, using blogs, wikis, and other tools, could provide and share valuable information that would improve the effectiveness of professional emergency response efforts, say computer science professor Ben Shneiderman, founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies. After the 2004 tsunami, the most common way to coordinate damage assessment and support was through the information being provided by volunteers using Web tools. Similar efforts were seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when many Web sites emerged to keep track of missing people and relief efforts. The UM paper calls attention to the lack of online reporting and networking incorporated into Homeland Security's new Information Network for Disaster Response as well as its online volunteer forum citizenscorp.gov. "If such systems were formalized in whole or in part, the impact could indeed be enormous," says the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Lars Bromley. But, "It's entirely possible that [the plan] is simply too decentralized and technically advanced for the relatively moribund .gov sector." A project known as Instedd intends to create a decentralized global reporting system for disease outbreaks. For such programs to have an impact, "A sympathetic balance between local and central will be necessary," says Preece.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-12.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#656A95">Click Here to View Full Article</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sahana_proj mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Sahana_proj@lists.trincoll.edu">Sahana_proj@lists.trincoll.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.trincoll.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sahana_proj">http://lists.trincoll.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sahana_proj</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>