London blasts on Flickr and Wikipedia
I'm sure this point will be made repeatedly today, but waking up on the Pacific coast of the U.S., I found much better information about today's terrorist attacks in London by looking at the Wikipedia news page and the Flickr photo group than I did by looking at The New York Times and watching CNN. Of course both Flickr and Wikipedia are repeating information and images collected from major news outlets -- many of the Flickr photos are screenshots from television -- but they are both notable for collecting that information from so many sources.
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