London Calling

Bet the Clash never thought I'd appropriate London Calling for this purpose. But "London calling to the faraway towns/Now that war is declared-and battle come down/London calling to the underworld"...or underground...indeed.

I've been a news nerd for much of my life. I am, afterall, my father's daughter. Dad used to buy every newspaper, watch all the news services (back in the day when we had two TV channels to choose from) and uh, stay up til all hours watching cricket. I mimic many of these habits, now my Dad is gone.

Now I love the internet, the way I observe the news has changed. And how we might "teach to the news" has changed.

My journey to discover more about the London bombing started at your traditional type of news services:
cnn.com
Google News (where I have my own customised page - try it, newsnerds!)

Then I moved on to my favourite site for finding out pretty much anything:
Wikipedia
(I love this site so much! I browse it as my 'just cruising' internet site. Yesterday I read about islands of the Caribbean, as I had no real clue about the area. When I was a kid, I used to read encyclopedias and dictionaries - much to the delight of the school bullies. Now I can do it again...mwah! Wikipedia!)

But I love photos of news events. And on the internet, there are so many non-news service photos. With the rise of camera phones and digital photography, there are often opportunities to see images you don't see on the traditional news services. So I went to:
Flickr's London Bombing photo pool
The News Is Now Public
Wikipedia Images

Then I decided to see what 'the kids' were saying on their blogs over at Technorati.

I won't be buying a newspaper...