japan earthquake

This past weekend, as you know, Japan held a signing ceremony for ACTA.

While that's already been covered, the folks at StopACTANow pointed out something really bizarre in the Japanese announcement concerning the signing ceremony.

It lists out five points.

We've had smartphones for a while and disasters for far longer. But the growth of smartphones has helped turn natural disasters like the Japan earthquake into far more personal, powerful and real-time events for both the victims on the ground and people consuming the news.

Earthquakes are one thing you can bet on being covered on Twitter first, because, quite frankly, if the ground is shaking, you’re going to tweet about it before it even registers with the USGS and long before it gets reported by the