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James Surowiecki: When social media became news

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James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.

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TED.com

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, culture, entertainment, media, social change, social media, technology, TED2005, 2005

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