Drizzle with a chance of earthquakes in the afternoon… On Saturday morning I was asleep – I usually am, but I was late getting up and getting online. I noticed that Skype was flashing a message – it was SY from Hospitalera Blogs asking if I was OK. Hmm I thought yes – why? I turned the radio on – it was talking about the big quake – obviously not the long awaited Wellington earthquake, and was in fact a huge quake of 7.1 in Christchurch. Its been an interesting few days – and I don’t just mean the minor earthquakes that we have had in Wellington (and yes quakes do come in swarms, and no I didn’t even notice them). Two things came out of this: trends blogging and business continuity and communications in the Twitter world. Christchurch Wordsworth Colombo Streets (c) NZ Herald Trends Blogging OK in my defence I knew no one was dead – but my second thought was – hmmm wonder what happens if I Google “earthquake insurance New Zealand” -ah I find my own Earthquake Insurance hubpage (which was written almost a year ago after Hubpages did a disaster hubmob) ranking just below the [...] Read more »