Fairly boring commentary from an oversensitive, emotionally demanding computer nerd (with a not-so brand-new 4-year-old, and two cats)
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February 02, 2003
Community in tragedy
Yesterday's Columbia tragedy was a high point for the Internet, and especially the blogging community. From the earliest point sites like scripting news relayed a great deal of information, some from major news outlets, but also a lot of informed speculation and commentary from bloggers.
And I continue to find wonderful commentary like there is no cat's entry.
When I was in the newspaper business, we often would say that stories like this are a "TV story" - by the time we came out, there was not a great deal to write that was relevant, or would be by the time the paper came out.
But yesterday the Net came up with a lot of information I didn't see on TV.
Oddly, the Internet is not really so much competition for traditional media, but a superset - everyone contributes their own skills, background and point of view.
Posted by markj at February 2, 2003 04:29 PM
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