Covering Mumbai: From Mainstream to Twitter

Citizen journalism may not be a term or force that is fully formed, but in major breaking news events, blogs, Tweets and other forms of user generated content are a powerful source of information.

Global Voices Online featured special coverage and blog posts from India, Pakistan and Israel.

Twitter  continued to get dozens of updates every few minutes during the worst of the attack. Note: to perform an advanced search on Twitter - go to http://www.search.twitter.com/advanced

For a 3D live global view of updates, go to Twittervision at http://twittervision.com/

As for the mainstream media, the New York Times showed off its multimedia talents again with a photographer's slide show  by Michael Rubenstein and an interactive map of the attacks. 

And kudos to my former colleague Sara Sidner for her unflappable coverage of the attacks for CNN International. Sara remained calm despite enduring an angry mob and a bomb blast at the Taj. Wolf Blitzer called her courageous - and since she babysat my cat for me once, I'd have to agree!