The Moment Social Media became the News

November 14th, 2008 |

“James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news — and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.”

Wouldn’t it be fun to sit and talk with Surowiecki and Clay Shirky at the same time?!

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