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The Power of Blogging

This is what its all about and why CNN with its 24x7 news channel is hopelessly out of date.

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» Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 -9) from TechCrunch
This week we saw a number of interesting web 2.0 developments. Far outstripping everything else, however, was the terrorist attack on London on July 7. Blogs and the Internet played a big role in getting information out to people, as television lagg... [Read More]

Tracked on Jul 8, 2005 5:32:57 PM

Posted July 7, 2005 in Venture Capital and Technology

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One cameraphoto and a mixed-bag of wingnuts pontificting on the significance of it all is supposed to be held up as a triump of the "new news"?

The amount of underserved self-congratulation being thrown around the blogosphere right now for doing a rather poor job of reporting anything of substance is rather alarming.

If anything, this shows why 24x7 channels like CNN will be around for a long time. They actually provide information rather than speculation and random tidbits of uninformed opinion. The number of flickr photos tagged with "london bombing" that were nothing more than screenshots _of TV news_ should tell you all you need to know about the merits of citizen journalists at this point in time...

Posted by: Jim McCoy | Jul 7, 2005 11:53:42 PM

Jim, what about Wikipedia? Have you missed it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Explosions%2C_%27serious_incidents%27_occuring_across_London

Blogs:
Newsblog - Guardian
Instapundit
Londonist
Metroblogging London
A Fistful of Euros
Boing Boing
London bombings: blogs covering from the frontline - The Blog Herald
London Bloggers
Bloggers and Photographers Chronicle Chaos in London - WSJ.com

http://divedi.blogspot.com/2005/07/bombs-in-london.html

Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov | Jul 8, 2005 8:15:32 AM

I did see and watch the unfolding wikipedia effort. It was well done and should be commended, but it was a group-edit of information from other sources (notably there were a lot of "old media" sources in there.) The blogosphere seems to be a large collection of punditry, some good and some bad, but not a very good information source. I watched and waited for blogs to provide something more and it seems to have failed.

We have podcasting, but where are the "man on the street" interviews that I could get by turning the radio dial to NPR? There were cameraphone shots with poor resolution and even worse lighting, but few pictures that would even be worth printing out. Let's not even start on video.

IMHO it seems that blogs did better with the December tsunami than the bombings in London.

Posted by: Jim McCoy | Jul 8, 2005 4:40:54 PM

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