London Bombings Wikipedia Entry - Open Source History
The blogosphere never ceases to amaze me. There is already a wikipedia entry for the 7 July London Bombings with information on the awful event itself, the state of casualties, the cause, official statements from various heads of state and world leaders, responses, the timeline, infrastructure and transport status on the bus, tube, rail, road, air and even river networks; as well as links to blogs, news articles, live streams, photographs and a survivor list.
At some level its kind of weird that all this is up and available as soon as it has happened. I think some people will feel kind of uncomfortable with this sort of communal coverage - this kind of thing where people are recording history as it happens. My view is that different people react to terrible events in very different ways and I don’t think for a second that anyone wishes an event like this to occur. What is amazing to me though, is to see people all over the world reaching out and working together, whether it be to make people aware of what has happened or to offer condolences or indeed to be part of the relief services that have done so well to manage on this day.
Tags: london, explosion, blog, blasts, london bomb blasts, history
July 7th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
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