"Chad Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Within a minute of the earthquake, we were hitting the web, looking for the
>first news site to report the quake. Reuter's won, at about 9 minutes after
>the quake. I found it interesting that such big news could translate so
>quickly from the real world to the Internet.
Okay, you dragged it out of me.
As we gathered outside the building, we found someone who'd brought their
laptop and wireless network card and all clustered around. We found the
earlier 4.2 reported by USGS with apparently the same epicenter within about
5 minutes of the quake.
CNN had a placeholder news story up within 10 minutes. MSNBC's site lagged
behind their on-air coverage, presumably because they'd all evacuated as
well (it's just up the street from us).
Joshua
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