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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: beckett and others in NandO
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:03:36 -0400 (EDT)


http://www.newsobserver.com/monday/front/Business/Story/820884p-813897c.html

"Thomas Beckett, a student at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler business
school and an active member of several online communities, said he
actually learned about the attack on an e-mail list. From there he went to
CNN online and from there to the television news. But he stayed online the
whole time, sending messages to friends and posting information about
donating blood to groups.

"I thought it was kind of interesting," Beckett said. "I didn't have a TV
available right away and the news Web sites got very quickly jammed up.

E-mail was how word was spreading."

Finding people

His friend, Tom Corbitt, who recently started working at MCNC, was also
online. Corbitt's best friend, Mark, lives blocks away from the World
Trade Center, and Corbitt spent much of his time Tuesday trying to track
down news of his welfare.

After he learned that Mark was OK, Corbitt posted digital pictures Mark
had taken of his demolished neighborhood for him on his Web site
(www.punkfu.com/photo/gallery ). The gallery of pictures was posted on a
site for residents of the Battery Park neighborhood and received hundreds
of visitors."

more at above link



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