And not just to each other and news. Here's why. In the last couple of days, I've read many posts describing how hurricane #sandy was the perfect social media storm: [...] the simultaneous rise and ubiquity of Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, along with the endless churn of the 24-hour news cycle — combined to create another hybrid vortex in which the virtual community experienced the storm both in seclusion and all together. We all watched through our screens first, interacting all the while, and out the window second. Except for those affected. They lived it, of course. We lived vicariously... Read more →