All of us can remember where we were on September 11, 2001. Some of us were at work, school or watching the tragic event unfold on television. Unfortunately, most of us cannot remember where we were or even what we did the following day. I, however, may not remember exactly what I did as a person on September 12, 2001, but I remember very vividly what we did as a nation: we came together as one.
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The tenth anniversary of September 11 is approaching and to pay tribute to pay tribute to those affected by the tragedy around the world, the New York Times and YouTube have launched a September 11 YouTube channel featuring special content from the New York Times, archived broadcasts from September 2001, and personal stories and tributes, and they want you to share your 9/11 story.
There are situations in which people cannot make a voice call to 911 but might be able to send a text message. This was the case in 2007 during the campus shootings at Virginia Tech. Unfortunately, text messages sent to 911 are not processed. Only voice calls are. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been working on something the call Next Generation 911 (NG911). The FCC announced a plan this week to deploy NG911.
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Rashard Mendenhall, the 23-year-old Pittsburgh Steeler running back who made news on Monday following his tweets that both questioned the celebration surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden and his involvement in the World Trade Center bombing, made an attempt to clarify his remarks last night. Read more
In a tasteful display of using social media to commemorate a tragedy, the Washington Post’s #wherewereyou hashtag made its way around the Twitter-verse this weekend to get users to share where they were on September 11th, 2001. The semantics of the tag itself and the poignancy of the event that is still fresh in many American’s memories no doubt contributed to the outpouring of responses originating from the Washington Post’s Twitter page, but Nieman Journalism Lab points out that the very nature of digital media has caused the hashtag to shift in meaning and begin documenting other sentiments as well. The call for 9/11 memories on Twitter reflects not only the nation on a day of mourning and remembrance, but also the way digital media is both perpetuating and changing history.
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