It was interesting to watch the story break today about the fire in East London. I first picked up a twitter message from jovike which was then quickly followed by Twitter messages from Farringdon and East London. Meanwhile nothing on BBC, Londonist, ITV Local or other websites. The best place to see the story unfolding was via the 'fire' tag on Flickr, THEN on BBC News 24 video stream (via Zatoo) then slowly everywhere else. Microblogging rules for breaking news!


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