Day of mourning in Moscow and in Runet

Olga Rasulova — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:38:18 +0000

2 Deadly Explosions in Moscow metro became the main theme in Runet. The blasts occurred during the morning rush hour in central Moscow. The first was at the Lubyanka metro station (7:50 am), the second came 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station. Social media turns to be more quick and operative than traditional media. The tragedy in Moscow metro has become an example of TV sluggishness: “40 Tweets per second on the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro vs. only 4 TV newscasts in the morning” via @krassnova.

Shortly after the tragedy in blogs and social networks began to appear the first reports from users via twitter and LiveJournal. The main issue, which were discussed – how to help the victims (shortage of donated blood), horrible behavior of Moscow taxi drivers (who took advantage of the situation and inflated the prices several times for those who had been unable to get out of the subway, but had yet to reach their destinations) .

Today in blogs, photos from tragedy places, video from tragedy places, hashtags broadcasting the news in real time – #moscow and #metro29. Moreover, in twitter there was an hour of silence from 5 till 6 p.m. on March, 29.

Detailed description of what was going on in Moscow in English.

Views from Edelman’s offices

Olga Rasulova — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:37:10 +0000

Twitting on Twitter, I’ve found out that my colleagues from London moved to the new office and writing about it as of something great and awesome.

I was so curious about this new one though I hadn’t seen the old before. So, I’ve asked Simon Collister to show me this new office in pictures. He kindly uploaded some on Flickr and while I was looking at, I thought that it would be interesting for me or may be for others, too – to make a collection of views of/from Edelman’s offices.

And now the set View from Edelman offices counts 72 photos from 17 Edelman’s offices:

Montreal (Canada)

Press to see another view – in winter!

(photo by Katheryne Boileau)

Vilnus (Lithuania)

(photo by Wolfgang Lünenbürger)

Portland

(photo by Rian Merrill)

Chicago

(photo by Leticia Gomes)

(photo by Dmitry Dolgov, he’s made it when was in Chicago Summer school)

San Francisco