Comments on: What I Learned Mapping The London Riots http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/09/419-what-i-learned-mapping-the-london-riots/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Cridland http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/09/419-what-i-learned-mapping-the-london-riots/#comment-84860 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:05:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/09/419-what-i-learned-mapping-the-london-riots/#comment-84860 After this article (which oddly doesn’t actually link to the map!) I’ve written http://www.tweetresponsibly.net which might be of interest.

]]> By: Clive Power http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/09/419-what-i-learned-mapping-the-london-riots/#comment-84859 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:09:19 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/09/419-what-i-learned-mapping-the-london-riots/#comment-84859 I also was following the riots (particularly on the first
night, Saturday) and getting frustrated by clearly false reports and some fake pix/videos.

But I was also annoyed by the non-reporting by mainstream
media of events that certainly were occurring, such as the looting that was
taking place in Wood Green from about 0230 (as verified by the tweets of both
Guardian and NYT journalists who were there) but which had not been mentioned at
all in any format that I found by either the BBC or Sky when I last looked at
0400 that morning.

I agree with the general thrust of the article but I think
if you want timely, verified info, the only current source is Twitter but you
need to sort through and also understand why much of the ‘reporting’ there can
be dross. I wrote more about this at  http://clivepower.blogspot.com/2011/08/tottenham-reporting-how-twitter-won.html

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