First-gen social media still good for citizen journalism
The Straits Times today ran a follow up story on a reckless incident from 2005.
Driver crashes test car, sales exec dies
Netizens outraged that he’s shopping for another fast car while still under probe over fatal test-drive
By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent
The story has resurfaced because of outrage against this young man who on 21 March 2007 began posting about his indecision between getting a Volkswagen Golf GTI and a Subaru WRX STI-S on mycarforum.com.
The trial by social media basically went like…
‘Put him behind bars,’ went the posting by Hamster Fest.
Legendkiller declared: ‘He can run but he cannot hide. I will do my best to ensure that he does not get to drive another car again.’
According to the news article…
The online attack spilled into other online forums such as Sammyboy.com and Hardwarezone.
My colleague and social media advocate, Raoul Le Blond, brought the article to our attention and reminded us about the importance of the “old” social media such as forums (bulletin boards).
When was the last time you heard forums mentioned with all this chatter about blogs, wikis, Twitter, social networks and other Web 2.0-powered social media? I get the feeling we forward looking enthusiasts sometimes forget these “older” new media.
I’m glad to see the old and older media working together to develop and amplify citizen powered news.
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