Nordic Geospatial Blog –

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NASA GeoCam project – http://disastercam.blogspot.com/

Great tools for deciphering the torrent of #Twitter data -

http://gnip.com

http://www.geochirp.com/

http://trendsmap.com/

http://www.sat2twitter.com/

And a great UN effort to share pictures and their locations -

http://www.ansur.no/

& http://www.geo-pictures.eu/

Compelling TEDx talk by UK journalist Paul Lewis ( ) re: the citizen reporting and transparency paradigm shift which Twitter and allied social media tools have ushered-in -

…an equally focused and vivid 3 minute lightning talk by ESRI re: Social Media for Emergency Management #SMEM

And with great allusions to AirWolf and Yoda, a concise ‘state of the social mapping union’ TEDx Silicon Valley tour de force by one of the preeminent #SMEM and #CrisisMappers visionaries, Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier speaks at TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 from TEDx Silicon Valley on Vimeo.

Free ArcGIS.com resource for understanding the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – http://www.london2012.com

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Lastly, interesting beta Silverlight map tool to note Twitter geo patterns and timeline -

http://apps.arcgis.com/hosted/OnePane/twittertimeline/index.html

Follow current US Flooding, Tornado, and other declared disasters here -

http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

and use the following live, ArcGIS Online GIS map created by Nordic Geospatial to monitor the disaster response and recovery efforts -

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Where 2.0 2010 in San Jose… Proceedings and Video
http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/schedule/proceedings