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Weblogs Give Fast Man-in-Street Reports of Twin Towers, Pentagon Disaster.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2001
By Doug Bedell, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 20--While traditional media provided most of the world with news of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new form of war zone coverage took shape on the World Wide Web.
Some of the first images and accounts of the destruction were recorded and instantaneously published by New Yorkers, District of Columbia-area residents and others who maintain thousands of low-traffic Weblogs, or "blogs" -- easily updated sites designed for sharing observations and collaborating.
With some mass media Web sites overwhelmed by page requests, millions turned to rolling Internet discussion boards such as Slashdot (slashdot.org), which instantly converted its "News for Geeks"...
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