Underground tunnel with emergency lighting – Uploaded by antarcticlemur.
Four years ago, I was at work on the morning of September 11 , and I remember desperately trying to get to the CNN website to understand what was going on. Last year, when I first heard about the Madrid bombing, I visited CNN.com and Yahoo!News. But today, when I wanted to learn what was going on in London, I ran to Technorati, and from there to Boing Boing and Wikinews. I read blogs of first-hand experiences and commentaries, I looked at Flickr streams, and read updated and organized collections of wiki information.
When I eventually visited CNN, I didn’t see anything new or revealing. The soul of the London events, the human experience of the bombings, were captured much more vividly and with greater richness in the blogs, wikis, and photoblogs than in the official news.
Technorati tags: London Bombings, News
July 8, 2005
(Hat tip an Antonella Pavese für den Link.)