Mumbai crisis put 'citizen journalists' in spotlight
When gunfire erupted in Mumbai earlier this week, blogger Arun Shanbhag switched on his computer, grabbed his camera and hit the streets.
"Mumbai Blasts: Taj Hotel is a block from my house! Hostages still inside; still burning; smoke is pouring from windows; pics later," he wrote on his Twitter blog moments after gunmen stormed the historic Taj hotel.
Within half an hour, as security forces scrambled to gain control of the quickly-escalating emergency, Shanbhag was live-blogging the crisis and uploading photos to his website.
"OMG (oh my god)!" he twittered on Wednesday night. "One of the domes of the Taj is on fire ... It is burning like a bonfire! I can actually see the structs/frameworks (sic) under the tiles in full blaze. OMG! NO! This can't be happening!"
While traditional media outlets were quick to broadcast breaking news developments, a small army of citizen journalists were uploading photos on websites like Flickr and posting up-to-the-minute information in real time on their blogs.
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