My cell phone rang at 11:42a on Friday. Over the next twenty minutes, I received two notification emails and heard sirens. Indiana University had successfully alerted the campus to a faux emergency, as a test of the IU-Notify system.
A paradigm shift towards presence
Is microblogging something new? Young services like Twitter and Tumblr are seen by some as a natural evolution of personal presence on the Internet, filling a gap between blogging and social networking. Some say it is in the process of obsoleting email.