Twitter, tweet… t-what?

There has been a lot of “tweeting” going on out there. News organizations do it, regular old schmoes do it. And now there is already (four years since Twitter’s beginning) a Twitter-holics group. The tweet (singular of “twitter”) is a 140-character message sent out into the world much like a blog post. The twitter posts [...]

Mumbai blitz attack coverage

The very day of the attacks in Mumbai, India a Google map of the attacks was posted by Al Jazeera, Flickr photo collections were uploaded by bystanders, and even the self-proclaimed gunmen called into a news TV station to explain the motive behind the attack.
The news was moving faster than the media and citizens — [...]