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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Joe Solomon has a post over at Netsquared called " Social Media Powered Hope " and reports: Yesterday, the first ever hashtag made it into the center of the UN climate negotiations , #WeStandwithTuvalu (a Pacific island nation) -- an action that was coordinated by SMS inside the conference in Copenhagen.

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An out-of-control Chinese rocket has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere

The Verge

The 100-foot-tall, 22-metric-ton Chinese Long March 5B rocket that launched the first chunk of Beijing’s new space station last month has reentered Earth’s atmosphere near the Maldives, China’s Manned Space Engineering Office reported. Everyone else following the #LongMarch5B re-entry can relax. The rocket is down.