Today, as events unfold in London, I'm drawn to the eyewitness accounts, such as these comments on the BBC and Guardian web sites and this BBC collection of reader-submitted photos. Yet, in this age of self-publishing, that's a miniscule fraction of what's being published. Thousands of citizen journalist posts and images are showing up on Technorati, Flickr and other aggregators. Finding the best is a challenge.
For blogs, I've been looking at "london"-tagged posts at Technorati and at the UKBlogs Aggregator. For images, try "london"-tagged posts at Flickr. Flickr also has two-relevant photo pools: The London Bomb Blasts Pool and London Explosions Pool.
Something innate compels me to wade through dozens of posts and photos, yet there's just too much here. Neither Technorati nor Flickr call for the user to evaluate content, so we can't help guide one another to the best material.
Over at moblog UK, users to rate photos. But on a breaking story, that's not much help because the highest-rated photos are older ones. There's no mechanism for promoting the best of the most-recent images.
So, we rely on the individual human filters:
Boing Boing, which led me to the Flickr pools.
Project Nothing!
Wikipedia
Tim Worstall
Europhobia
Buzz Machine
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