Drawing Connections and The Big Picture

Throughout the quarter we have seen/read many different articles and videos. One connection I saw in these is how technology has helped us. One example is in Shirky's book with the stolen cell phone. Ivanna never expected to get her phone back, but with the help of her friend Evan's website, she not only got the phone back but she found hundreds of people who support her. There hundreds, even thousands of support groups on the web.
        One example of a support group would be Flickr. This was mentioned in Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody. In the book he mentioned numerous tradgedies, and there were people from all around the world who gave encouragement to people in need. Another way technology has helped us is how we can talk about events that are happening all around the world. One example of this is the London Underground Bombing in 2005. The evacuees took pictures of what was happening and posted them to Flickr. Then people started commenting on these pictures and having discussions.
         Lastly, another connection I made is people use the internet to get their points across. An example of someone getting their point across is Dave Carroll's song United Breaks Guitars. When United Airlines broke his guitar, he wrote a song about it and posted it to YouTube. It obviously got tons of hits and this ties into the internet being a support group as well. I think we have alot to learn from the internet.