{"id":532253,"date":"2010-04-18T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=113907"},"modified":"2010-04-18T00:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T04:29:29","slug":"volcano-stranded-travelers-turn-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532253","title":{"rendered":"Volcano-Stranded Travelers Turn to Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/2787499964_4feaf741c5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/2787499964_4feaf741c5.png?w=300&#038;h=183\" alt=\"\" title=\"2787499964_4feaf741c5\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-113906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic volcano eruption that stranded hundreds of thousands of travellers in Europe and elsewhere on Friday showed no signs of letting up on the weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=10402507\">continuing to belch a plume<\/a> of ash that covered much of the European continent. Airlines &#8212; which by Friday evening had already canceled more flights than at any time since the attacks of September 11 in New York &#8212; were still refusing to take bookings for new flights into next week, stranding passengers for days without connecting flights. Some took matters into their own hands: comedian and actor John Cleese, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/celebritynews\/7600537\/John-Cleese-takes-3300-taxi-across-Europe-to-beat-ash-flight-chaos.html\">hired a taxi<\/a> to take him from Norway to Belgium, at a cost of almost $7,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-posts-113907\" class=\"widget inline-related-posts alignright clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"widget-title-wrap clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">More on <span><a class=\"category-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/topic\/social-networks\/\" title=\"Social Networks\">Social Networks<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-related-posts\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/16\/in-tweetie-aftermath-tweetarena-selling-twitter-client-assets-on-ebay\/\">In Tweetie Aftermath, Tweetarena Selling Twitter Client Assets on&nbsp;eBay<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/16\/bitly-twitter-betaworks-borthwick\/\">Bit.ly to Twitter: So Long, and Thanks for All the&nbsp;Links<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/16\/whats-up-with-twitters-new-data-center\/\">Is Twitter Really Building Its Own Data&nbsp;Center?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/16\/facebook-location-tracking-glympse\/\">Glympse Adds Real-time Location Tracking to&nbsp;Facebook<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"widget-bottom clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Others turned to Twitter and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=111731495524306&#038;__a=15&#038;_fb_noscript=1\">Facebook<\/a> to try and find rooms for the night, or alternate travel plans involving boats, trains and other forms of transportation. In addition to the hashtag that had quickly come to be used after the eruption on Friday &#8212; #ashtag, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%23ashtag\">continued to gain steam<\/a> &#8212; another also started to take hold on Saturday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%23getmehome\">@getmehome<\/a>, as well as #roadsharing and #stranded. Travellers <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ligaso\/statuses\/12364761865\">asked<\/a> for accomodations, others <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unhotel\/status\/12361831625\">offered them<\/a>, and groups helping those stranded co-ordinated their actions using social tools, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsharing.com\/view\/6860fe4f-9959-4bb5-8ca7-515dc53d8ab0\">the Roadsharing site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some, like Rita J. King, CEO of Dancing Ink Productions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginationage.net\/2010\/04\/notes-from-volcano-refugee-in-london.html\">blogged their predicament<\/a>. Others shared photos of their surroundings, or of the volcano itself, including an incredible image of lightning <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/data.tumblr.com\/tumblr_l11g2j3hnh1qbdbdao1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&#038;Expires=1271625577&#038;Signature=pi8C7pwORn1IdRxbwMDR3DwrZeo%3D\">forking through the clouds of ash<\/a>. Someone even set up a Twitter account for the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theashcloud\">ash cloud<\/a>, which had over 1,000 followers by the end of Saturday. Information is Beautiful chose to look on the bright side and calculated the positive side  of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2010\/planes-or-volcano\/\">lack of airplane traffic<\/a>, and First Round Capital decided to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/17\/thanks-to-the-ash-a-rare-opportunity-for-startups-to-meet-a-legendary-vc-in-london\/\">impromptu meeting<\/a> with startups, since some of the firm&#8217;s VCs were stuck in Europe by the ash cloud. The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/airport-closings-graphic.html\">a map of all the affected airports<\/a>, which it is updating regularly as new reports come in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post and thumbnail photos <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">courtesy<\/a> of Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7519597@N05\/2787499964\/\">Cessna 206<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=113907&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=bDC9gRkRNm4:KYcdORYoj0A:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/bDC9gRkRNm4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Icelandic volcano eruption that stranded hundreds of thousands of travellers in Europe and elsewhere on Friday showed no signs of letting up on the weekend, continuing to belch a plume of ash that covered much of the European continent. 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