December 2nd, 2008
My Blog Mentioned as a Source in a Associated Press Story on the Role of Citizen Journalism in the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
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My blog was mentioned as a source in a Associated Press story on the role of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The story was reproduced in several newspapers including Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, Business Week, Fox News, New York Times and Salon, amongst others.
Here is the full text of the Associated Press story (AP has very graciously waived off the reproduction fees) –
Bloggers provide raw view of Mumbai attacks
By SAM DOLNICK – 1 day agoNEW DELHI (AP) — When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city’s landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.
Blogs and social networking sites like Twitter and Flickr buzzed with eyewitness accounts from India’s financial capital, providing some of the first photos of the besieged targets and serving as a forum for pleas for updates on friends and family.
Photos posted on Flickr just 90 minutes after the attacks had been viewed at least 110,000 times by Sunday.
Twitter users, who simply tagged their comments “mumbai,” traded information at a rate of 50-100 posts a minute in messages that were sometimes wrong, often fragmented, but always instant.
