I was about ten blocks away from that steam pipe explosion in New York this evening, at PR Newswire for Howard Greenstein’s Social Media Club event. I learned about the incident from a twitter comment and people with cell phone cameras wasted no time in capturing it for CNN’s i-Report and ABC’s i-CAUGHT (below).
When will someone create a user-generated news site that offers greater rewards for those who capture video of these events? As we have reported before users are already casting a wider net than traditional news media can.
Wow.