The Toronto Globe and Mail has a good roundup of how social and citizen media sites are responding to the events in London today.
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on Aug 11th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
[…] Great tales…. Mathew Ingram, 10/08/06 at 11:21 AM EDT via Dan Gillmor’s blog Anyone who remembers the London subway bombings probably recalls the dozens of cellphone-camera photos of disheveled victims and twisted metal in the chaos of the London underground — pictures that became a powerful sign of how important “citizen journalism” or “social media” can be during such events. So far, I haven’t been able to find anything quite so dramatic coming out of the British airplane bombing plot (in part because it was foiled before it could take place, of course) but there are bits and pieces trickling in from various corners of the blogosphere and social-media outlets. […]
on Aug 16th, 2006 at 7:55 am
[…] Speaking of that sensational news story, both Cyberjournalist.net and Dan Gillmor's Center for Citizen Media point to an exceptional blog post on Mathew Ingram's geekwatch (via the Globe and Mail) that summarizes the social media/citizen journalism responses to the terror plot. Ingram's post starts with a BBC article on how the 7/7 bombings in London last summer transformed media and makes its way through topics like evolving Wikinews and Wikipedia pages providing information the MSM (mainstream media) didn't — or couldn't. […]