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I Concede The Cool Factor

January 9, 2009 01:52 by author

We just had an earthquake and a quick search of Twitter (about 30 seconds after it happened) showed hundreds of Tweets. More interestingly it showed that it was felt at least 40 miles west of me which means it was big.

I still don't think Twitter is a reliable news source but this experience was kind of cool.

Addendum: It turns out it was a 5.0 and it was about 30 miles east of me (which in it's own small way proves my point once again in that every tweet I saw was from Los Angeles which made me think the epicenter was west of me).

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Hi, I’m Tom and I run the IT department for a non-profit agency which provides treatment to special-needs children. Though I will (like any blogger) comment on technology in general my main goal is to detail how I’m trying to use technology to help treat the children we serve and its my hope that blogging will allow me to connect with people who can help in that goal.

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