Earlier this morning, a major earthquake [1] rocked a large part of China. Immediate reports began to appear via Twitter and video postings. Global Voices has an outstanding post [2] on the variety of ways that news from China has come in over the Net.
For example, the earthquake is already up on Wikipedia [3]. And this is just one of many videos online capturing the quake [4] in real time. What do you consider the benefits — or drawbacks — of these delivery methods?
Links:
[1] http://news.google.com/news?q=china%20earthquake&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
[2] http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/12/china-78-scale-earthquake-felt-across-most-of-china/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake
[4] http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAnjz619SUc
[5] http://socialcitizens.org/?c=yes%23NewComment
[6] http://socialcitizens.org/taxonomy/term/330
[7] http://socialcitizens.org/taxonomy/term/311
[8] http://socialcitizens.org/taxonomy/term/342
[9] http://socialcitizens.org/taxonomy/term/348
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