From the placelessness of the Internet, bloggers and Twitterers embrace good old-fashioned neighborliness: Yesterday, David Armano at Logic+Emotion posted about Daniela and her family. He wrote, "Daniela is divorcing her spouse after years of abuse. In As of this moment, Daniela's family is staying at our house and we are trying to help her find a one bedroom apartment for her family to live in. With Evelyn, her youngest having Down's Syndrome and Daniela herself being a Romanian immigrant with very little family support she literally has no one to turn to. Except us (all of us)." David was looking to raise $5,000 for rent for Daniela--and he also Twittered the request. "In about two hours the original tweet had been Retweeted many times and the request spread on Twitter," writes Next Communications, "it went to Digg, it started trending on search.twitter, and no doubt there will be multiple blog posts that spread or cover this phenomenon." The result was amazing...

Gary D. Cohen writes, "If anyone thinks that people like David who use social media platforms to share information and give to their community in so many ways, do not have the power to use those platforms to move people, think again." And Jay Goldman writes, "I've never met David in person. Other than following him through Twitter and having a few mutual contacts through Critical Mass, I don't know him from Adam (as the saying goes). But I trust him far more than other virtual strangers because of the social proprioception created by Twitter and his blog and this crazy world of social media." The $5,000 goal was exceeded--by a lot. David writes today: "You the people in this collective neighborhood have come to the aid of this family, raising over $12,000.00 in significantly under 24 hours. This is astounding, audacious and ridiculously hopeful....Just know that you've done a great thing. You've touched 4 lives. You've influenced them. And we're all in this neighborhood together."