[Air-L] Evolution of the Wikipedia page on the attacks in Mumbai

[Frank Thomas]

And the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel , usually quite positive about 
digital media (the website is the no 1 on political news in Germany) 
criticizes the quality of the citizen journalists and writes about 
digital gawkers who produce commentary about events that they know about 
from other bloggers, twitters - or the press. The author also shows the 
extreme rapid reaction of twitters after the attacks in a nice diagram.

Another topic to think about : the need of having eye witnesses and 
instant explanations in the press:

A Mumbay blogger writes:
I was on Larry King Live on CNN about three hours ago. They called me 
and asked me to be on the show as an eyewitness, at which I protested 
that I hadn’t actually seen anything, I was merely in the vicinity. But 
they’d read what I wrote in this post earlier, and they wanted me to 
talk about that. So I agreed, and came on briefly. King asked me if I’d 
actually seen any terrorists—I felt guilty that I couldn’t offer him any 
dope there.

http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/a-night-out-in-mumbai/

- ft



Larry Press wrote:
> The wikipedia page on the Mumbai attacks grew to nearly 5,000 words in 
> 6 sections and was edited over 900 times in 21 hours, see:
>
> http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/mumbai-terrorist-attack-21-hour.html
>
> Citizen journalists also used Twitter and Flickr:
>
> http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/anyone-might-be-reporter-with-twitter.html 
>
>
> Larry Press
>
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