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84: Mumbai Attacks Spotlight Citizen Journalism

December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · blogs, commentary, crisis

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India over the Thanksgiving holiday dramatized the increasingly important role that citizen journalists are coming to play in the reporting of breaking news.  For hours after the attacks began, bloggers and Twitter users provided eyewitness accounts while professional journalists and television crews rushed to the scene.  Not all of the [...]

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47: Twitter magic

February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · PR, blogs, interview, socialmedia, socialnetwork

Many people’s first reaction to Twitter.com is that they just don’t get it. At first blush, the group instant messaging service looks like chaos: everyone is talking at once and some of them talking about nothing in particular. But Twitter has inspired a passionate following. Some people make it their main online communications medium. It’s [...]

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