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Citizen Journalists Provide Glimpses Into Attacks

November 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment

From New York Times

From his terrace on Colaba Causeway in south Mumbai, Arun Shanbhag saw the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel burn. He saw ambulances leave the Nariman House. And he recorded every move on the Internet.

Mr. Shanbhag, who lives in Boston but happened to be in Mumbai when the attacks began on Wednesday, described the gunfire on Twitter — the “thud, thud, thud” of shotguns and the short bursts of automatic weapons — and uploaded photos to his personal blog.

Read Full Story:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30twitter.html

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