Isn’t the power of the internet, coupled with blogging and micro-blogging amazing?

I was at home this morning when I heard on the news about a fire in Cape Town that had gutted a backpackers lodge (just around the corner from our office building). 

At the same time I was checking my RSS feeds, reading email and I saw a new tweet from a mate of mine about the fire with a photo and a post on his blog about it.

A quick search of my local news feeds and Twitter and no one else had picked up on this yet. Only after I got to the office, and took a few pictures myself, did the other news agencies pick up on it.

Does it mean journoulists should be worried about their jobs – nope – but I do think they should be keeping their ears and eyes open to other bloggers and micro-bloggers. After all this isn’t the first time news stories have broken out on the Internet even before news agencies and journalists have picked up on it.

Taken from my office window this morning.

Twitter has become synonymous with micro-blogging and it’s gaining users quickly. But with the Internet moving so fast these days it can be come difficult to keep up with hundreds (if not thousands) of people’s Tweets of 140 charcters. Flutter posts or flaps as they like to call them are only 26 characters long. iPhone users will love it because there’s an auto-posting application for the iPhone too!

Welcome to the new technolgy called nano-blogging: Flutter

Now you can tweet, erm, flap even faster!

Check out the video below for more cool info. [via 2oceansvibe.com]