From a post on Boing Boing, I came across and interesting phenomena relating to the bomb blasts in London today: real-time photo journalism. The combination of public photo sites with tagging photos has created a real-time set of images from London relating to the bomb blasts. Flickr has a number of tags which show photos from London this morning: bombs, bomb, London. When you combine these tags with RSS feeds from Flickr you have an interesting replacement for real-time TV news images.
My thoughts go out to Londoners. Having lived in D.C. on Sept 11, I know it can be a scary, confusing and unreal time.