I was in Japan for the first week after the disaster. I do not speak Japanese and, like many foreigners there, depended entirely on the Internet for my news. What I found was that many of the US traditional media either covered weakly or sensationalized. The best source, turned out to be a guy who turned his live webstream into a real-time translation of the Japanese NHK broadcast called YokosoNews at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yokosonews. His broadcast and translation included a twitter stream where people could ask him questions, share related links, share their own immediate experiences. It was amazing. Katz, the guy who did this, just started doing this as he saw the need. His agility and creativity in filling this void could have never been possible with traditional media. Check him out, he has become a bit of a twitter sensation too. @YokosuNews
Kathleen Wiersch
@kathleenwiersch
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