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Oil prices, the Beijing Olympics and Mumbai terror attacks all feature in the list.
“As Twitter use becomes more widespread, so it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint the type of information you are looking for,” writes Daniel Bennett.
“A vast of sea of tweets with #Mumbai quickly developed, and if you were a journalist trying to find eyewitness accounts you found yourself painstakingly wading through them all. Those who did probably found it was time well spent, but is there a better way?” Bennett asks.
Here are clips of the various Mumbai blogger interviews. Fuller multimedia round-up here.
Dina, who blogs at Mumbaihelp.blogspot.com and on her own site and Vinu, whose photographs have been viewed by nearly 100,000 (at time of writing) on Flickr, speaking on CNN.
Amit Varma, who blogged a first-hand account, interviewed by the BBC (vision very poor but audio is adequate)
Gaurav Mishra, also interviewed in a text interview on the main page of Journalism.co.uk, here featured in the CBS Early Show coverage, looking at the reportage through citizen journalism:
A look at where the news has unfolded. Please post additional links below. Journalism.co.uk will add in more links as they are spotted.
Washington-based blogger and social media expert, Gaurav Mishra talks to Journalism.co.uk in an interview published on the main page.
One of the few on-the-ground user-generated content examples, Vinu’s Flickr stream (screen grab above). Slide show below:
How it has been reported:
Photography:
Blogs:
Breaking news:
Social Media:
Microblogging:
Mapping:
Video:
Timelines:
Campaigns / Aid:
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(J.co.uk update)Read Amy Gahran’s skepticism about this particular rumour on her blog. It seems unlikely, but as blogged and recorded by @Lloydshep (follow link at end): “The awful stuff coming out of Mumbai is one thing, but here’s another: the Indian government asking for live Twitter updates to cease to protect their operations. For all sorts of reasons, this seems to be significant.”