Before we get into the topic, this blog has been set up as a continuation of volunteer work started back in February, when I was helping out on Twitter relaying important information via three key bushfire-related hashtags.
I would have preferred keeping this topic range over on my Wordpress blog, but unfortunately there is no way to use Friendfeed widgets over there. Having discovered them today, I find it helpful having some resources to feed to here via such widgets, but for some reason, Wordpress doesn't allow the embedding of such things.
Anyway, in the months since the February 2009 Victorian bushfires, people are still recovering from losses, both personal and materially. There have been numerous documentaries on TV, plus testimony arising from the Royal Commision into the fires. Today I begin documenting such things, utilizing the technology available through current social media.
Where available, discussion via the Friendfeed widget will enable people to see the various opinions on such matters.
First off, a link to the actual Royal Commision website:
Next, an eyewitness account from the Kinglake end of the fires:
And one of today's accounts from the Royal Commission:
However, this next item would raise a few needed questions:
The Royal Commission continues.
Real-time discussion on this post:
I would have preferred keeping this topic range over on my Wordpress blog, but unfortunately there is no way to use Friendfeed widgets over there. Having discovered them today, I find it helpful having some resources to feed to here via such widgets, but for some reason, Wordpress doesn't allow the embedding of such things.
Anyway, in the months since the February 2009 Victorian bushfires, people are still recovering from losses, both personal and materially. There have been numerous documentaries on TV, plus testimony arising from the Royal Commision into the fires. Today I begin documenting such things, utilizing the technology available through current social media.
Where available, discussion via the Friendfeed widget will enable people to see the various opinions on such matters.
First off, a link to the actual Royal Commision website:
Next, an eyewitness account from the Kinglake end of the fires:
And one of today's accounts from the Royal Commission:
However, this next item would raise a few needed questions:
The Royal Commission continues.
Real-time discussion on this post:
