Snaparazzi

I just stumbled across a lovely new term within the citizen journalism sphere: snaparazzi! On wikipedia it is described nicely:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaparazzi

Snaparazzi are citizen journalists or passers-by who are witness to a newsworthy event and capture it on video or digital picture using their mobile phone. The 7 July 2005 London bombings provided a large number of cases where stills from the bombed underground trains were made available online almost immediately after the events. Another example would be of the Virginia Tech Shootings on April 16th where several students used their camera phones to capture footage of the shootings.

 The technology that's become available lately is so enabling, and is really reaching the man on the street in the truest sense (which reminds me actually of the fabulous One Laptop Per Child program) . I find myself really looking forward to "what they'll think of next", and how it will link up or connect with everything else out there.

Here's to a wealth of snaparazzi images to look forward to on our new citizen journalism platform, I look forward to seeing what you've seen.