Today in The Guardian online there is a report on their top 100 websites,with some analysis of the winners and losers this year:
It makes for interesting reading,especially the part how Twitter has effectively steamrolled the opposition and now has become,in my opinion,the tool of choice for citizen-journalists (remember the Iranian elections?),and Google and Microsoft have cottoned-onto this and are now using Tweets in their search results which is a big change.
Here’s an opinion on Twitter and the concept of citizen journalism:rather than hindering and misinforming,slowly it will help journalism as a whole as verifiable stories will be easier to find,and nothing is better than getting information from the people on the ground.
And the more information that comes from those closest to problems that are occurring,the better things could conceivably get. Certainly you have to be cautious with information online,but if enough people speak on the same topic and convey the same information,you’ve got cause for thought and the information to act.
