Audio: Compared to Iran, Twitter was not especially useful in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy and Andy Carvin of NPR’s social media desk discuss why some tools prove useful in crisis situations and not in others.

Each morning, Alfred Sirleaf combs through the day’s news and writes headlines and stories on a giant chalkboard. It’s the world’s least likely, most popular blog.

Vote Report India demonstrates how to crowdsource election events and provide coherent feedback.

Clay Shirky discusses how producers and consumers interact on the Internet.

Chocolate once met peanut butter. And it was good. Now sketching meets search and the results are phototastic.

Augmented Reality gets a boost as two iPhone apps use GPS to locate where you are, then the phone’s compass to know what direction you’re facing. Point your phone’s camera at something and a Wikipedia article about it will appear in your viewer.

Over the past decade dissident groups around the world have utilized Internet communications during crisis to broadcast their message to local and global communities. We take three case studies to see how this has been done. In the process we see that over the years, the ability to harness these technologies is moving from organizations to anyone with actual Internet access.

Trying to decide on an Open Source Platform that provides robust blogging and social networking capabilities? So were we.