OT: Virginia Tech shooting

For the most complete information, see Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times. It’s been all over the news but it’s still shocking. Watching MSNBC yesterday morning, I couldn’t believe my ears when the fatality count rose from one to 20 in the blink of an eye. The final count of 32 struck close to home. Charlottesville, VA is a short two-hour drive from Blacksburg, VA and more than a few good friends from high school attend Tech. Thank God they’re all safe. In the moment after the shooting, the outpouring of grief from fellow students across the county was immense. I got multiple invites to join Facebook groups reaching out to support our peers at Tech. The group I am in at UVA already has over 2K members. The Collegiate Times has a piece on the Facebook outreach related to the shooting. Students are using Facebook to support our friends and family at Tech, organizing vigils and expressing sympathy. I rarely run out of words, but there really isn’t much else to say–yesterday was a sad day for all students, Virginians and Americans. Please take a moment of silence to pray for those affected, their friends and families.

Update: see my post at VentureBeat on the same topic.

(Editor’s note: I didn’t think about it at the time of writing, but the title of this blog (Dead 3.0) is somewhat ominous given the topic of this post. The title has nothing to do with the shooting, instead referring to another blog (Dead 2.0) which covered the myriad of foolish startups currently being launched (and their subsequent demise). Oversight on my part, apologies.)