Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Tracking disaster coverage by citizen sites SmartMobs, the group blog about mobile and social computing inspired by the book of the same name, has been posting links galore to document how Londoners are using technology in the wake of the subway bombings, from mobile phone cameras and photo-album websites to blogs and Wikinews pages created by volunteers less than a half hour after the explosions. (See the discussion as the Wikinews story was built, and the history page showing each wave of changes.) Here are just a few of the SmartMobs headlines, where you'll find at least a half dozen links accompanying each item: BBC 'Not Afraid website catches mood'. Flood of mobile phone photos and videos documented blast aftermath. Flickr: Photos on day of bombing in London. Collaborative news on the London bombings. Here are BBC stories on some of the mobile and blog online activity after the bombings, and more on eye-witness contributions to the coverage, from EditorsWeblog. Meanwhile, Online Journalism Review's Mark Glaser asks, Did London bombings turn citizen journalists into citizen paparazzi? 3:12:34 PM    comment []

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