Highlights:
- Twitter was a very quick way for people to keep track of loved ones immediately after the collapse.
- Citizen journalists were surprisingly competent, both with quality and volume of reports and with the quality of photos and video. That's not to say that there wasn't bad stuff. There was.
- Photos are the best example of what the public can do. Check out Flickr (more on that in another post. A photo editor had some interesting perspective on those photos).
- "The eyewitness blog posts, the on-the-scene photography, and even the handheld and cell phone videos complete with their jerky motion and blurry, overcompressed images, all contribute far better than the mainstream media, to giving you a more accurate sense of being there."
5 comments:
Interesting. Do tell more what the photo editor thought of the Flickr photos.
It's newsy in Charlotte, I hear. Take care, and eliminate some stress by visiting the far ends of the Carolinas
...uh,
I meant to say:
eliminate some stress by visiting the far ends of the Carolinas at the following link:
Well shoot.
I've never been good at posting links in comments.
One more try:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
underoak/sets/72157601316694605/
Andria - you're sposed to be on vacation! Not reading and posting on the work blogs or vizeds for that matter! :-)
Truly. Horribly sick that I'm playing with Flickr and Photoshop and Facebook.
The kid has heat rash, so we stare at screens mid-day inside.
Had to walk a few miles on the beach earlier today to get some erosion pictures. Poor me.
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