Cal fires: broadband, digicam ubiquity enable these”citizen” videos of tragedy to hit the Web with force

Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Russell Shaw

With little room for debate, the most dramatic doemstic U.S. news story this week is the terrible fires raging in much of Southern California. The loss of thousands of homes and the evacuation of hundreds of thousands pale any technology angle into virtual insignificance. That said, the fires- and the growth of high-res digital video cameras [...]