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Twitter rocks! Two Indonesian Twitter people, Thomas Arie and Vetamandra just broke the news about earthquake at their hometown, Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. thomasarie tweeted at 13.45 pm: EARTHQUAKE in #jogjakarta vetamandra tweeted at 13.50 pm Barusan ada gempa cukup kencang di bantul yogyakarta! The country’s mainstream media, news portal Detik (at 14.27 pm) and Viva (at 14.33 pm) just [...]

The Mumbai attacks prove that citizen journalists could work and report faster than media mainstream. The reason is simple: they are everywhere; they have million of eyes and ears.  They are also with their mobile  devices — video-camera-equipped phones with the always-on Internet connections. No wonder we found the Mumbai unrest being captured on Twitter, a [...]

I told you so, we need blog and blogger –to get another view and fact. Sometimes, the maintream media fails to deliver balance views and clear facts. The recent Bali Bombing (foreign) mainstream media coverages as one of the examples. Please read Spruiked’s piece on idiocy of mainstream media regarding Bali bombers’ execution: Irony, Idiots and [...]