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Media Relations

IU team tests emergency blog system

Indiana Daily Student
April 3, 2007

By Emily Spitz

Informatics professor David Wild is working to make sure the disorder and chaos that plagued the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

Wild and a few colleagues and graduate students are testing an online blogging system that would be used for emergencies. The system, which is in a trial stage, relies on trusted citizen reporters to monitor any possible emergency situations, which are usually strong thunderstorms or tornadoes, but could also include man-made disasters.

Read the entire story at: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=42202

Learn more about the IU School of Informatics at: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/

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