SARS and SMS: How the News First Spread

Dan Gillmor has written up a short blurb saying that the initial word about the SARS disease didn’t spread by television or newspaper, but by SMS text messaging. Once again, an example of how the ability to communicate in a simple manner at any time from any place, can be a force more powerful than many people imagined.


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