The violence in Mumbai, India was captured in real time and published on the internet. This is a picture of one of the terrorists that was uploaded on Flickr.Others used Twitter to send short messages about what they saw.
Arun Shanbhag teaches at the Harvard Medical School and used Twitter. His blog was another source of an eyewitness account.
These web 2.0 applications were great sources of information and
often outperformed the traditional media.
