Taking Tsunami Coverage into Their Own Hands October 4, 2005

Taking Tsunami Coverage into Their Own Hands. Is this the tipping point for blogging? Steve
Outing thinks the tsunami has resulted in a tidal wave (sorry) of
citizens using communication technology to get the word out not only
about conditions in the affected areas but about their individual
stories. Digital videos, pictures, blog entries, SMS messages, are some
of the ways that people are not waiting for the mass media to tell the
story. An alternative, real-time, very decentralized story (or rather
cloud of stories) is being told. But of course finding all these
stories is extremely difficult. You can t turn on the news. You need to
find the aggregators and become your own aggregator. Here are some
quotes from Gillmor.