All kinds of media, mainstream and otherwise, are abuzz today with coverage of yesterday's major earthquake in China and its aftermath. Here's a quick roundup of some of the most compelling citizen journalism, eyewitness reports, and other quake-related acts of journalism from China and elsewhere that I've found online today:
Global Voices Online: Excellent roundup of blogging, citizen journalism, and other local nonprofessional reporting about the quake. John Kennedy notes: "Twitter seems to be a top source of breaking details for the moment. Many are writing of difficulties connecting to those at the center of the quake zone over telephone, but the Internet seems to still be functioning."
QQ.com: This popular Chinese video-sharing service has set up a special page aggregating contributed videos of the quake and its aftermath.
Yupoo: Gallery of earthquake photos from a major Chinese photo-sharing site.
CNN iReport: Aggregator page of all contributed content posted to that citizen journalism site about the quake. (Tip via Twheat, an iReport producer.)
NowPublic: All submissions tagged "earthquake" on this citizen reporting site, most recent listed first. Today, it's all about China.
Shanghaiist: This "metroblogging" site based in Shanghai (part of the Gothamist network) offers several quake-related stories. (Tip via Karoli.)
Flickr: All photos on this popular U.S.-based photo-sharing site today tagged "China" and "earthquake."
Tweet Scan: Here's what everybody's talking about on Twitter today regarding the China quake. (Note: If you follow that link much later than mid-May 2008, you'll probably see more references to other earthquake events.)
For more resources, see Paul Bradshaw's post from yesterday about crowdsourcing without managers.
...On the flip side, I'm surprised that the international (English) edition of OhMyNews, a popular citizen journalism site based in South Korea, does not seem to offer any quake coverage! On a related note, in a comment to Fons Tuinstra's post about the earthquake and Twitter today. Tidbits contributor Barbara Iverson said: "On March 21, 2008 there was another earthquake in China, but apparently no one was injured and there wasn't much damage. I wrote about it for Ohmynews. com at because I thought it was noteworthy that it was reporting on Twitter and not on any traditional media websites until later. I didn't post it to Tidbits, because the consequences of the earthquake were not as serious, and so it was kind of a techie story. I guess that was like a tremblor that I should have seen as a predictor of a greater news event."
