My gut tells me that the latest round in the Georgian-Russian crisis is going to get ugly.
CNN’s “Russian Tanks Rolling into Georgian Breakaway” shows one thing: our old friend Vladimir Putin feels free to call the shots.
Twitter alerts can only get you so far, in following a crisis. Check out these first attempts: this Twitter search or this one, or this Live News feed. You can RSS any of these by the way.
I’m working on several Popfly-designed orchestrations of alerts and newsfeeds to keep me updated on the latest news from South Ossetia, incorporating crowd-sourced information as much as I can.
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