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exemple du "Shift" généralisé en train de se produire : les sources d'information aux mains des individus grâce à leur progressive affiliation au mobile

Empowering technology also raises safety, credibility issues

By Marsha Walton
CNN

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Pundits and political junkies may have put blogs on the map. But now individuals all over the planet are using new blogging tools to share gritty, uncensored information.

"If you see a car bomb blast, your first thought is not to go to an Internet cafe and start blogging," said digital media expert Erik Sundelof.

But almost everywhere in the world, cell phones are available, with the ability to send text, photos, even video of such events instantly, he said.

Sundelof is the creator of "Lebanon-Israel Conflict Via Cell Phones," a blog that is different from the tens of thousands of web logs sharing facts, opinions, pictures and often unfettered anger about events in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The text and images he's publishing about the Lebanon-Israel conflict are sent from mobile phones, not from computers.

"What this is really creating is a way for normal people to tell their perspective," said Sundelof, who is working in the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University in California.

Some of the posts he has gotten in the short time the site has been up:

"I am getting tired of feeling afraid all the time. The sirens are becoming like a bad nightmare. I just want it to stop. ..."

"This war is madness. Why can't it stop?"

"I've been living in a state of despair and confusion. I feel helpless."

And one comment praising his creation of a blog for text messagers:

"At last, a tool for reporting," said one contributor.

www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/01/newblogs/index.html