The fires in Malibu this week are rightfully causing a flurry of traditional media coverage, but CenterNetworks wrote an insightful blog post on Monday linking to the many ways Web 2.0 is adding user generated voices to the mix. In addition to Flickr photos and YouTube Videos, several cyberfolks are giving reports through their Twitter streams. (Links to nateritter and kpbsnews. The latter is San Diego's Public Television station.) Wikipedia has updates links to all the news stories as well. Various Google Maps, one created by Google itself, are showing locations of the fires. Old media may have higher quality video and more professional, in-depth reporting, but this disaster points out the value of user generated news content—even for traditional news organizations.
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