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iPhone Photo of US Air Crash Published on Twitter
Gearlog —
... Janis Krums, a tourist in New York City from Sarasota, Florida, took a picture with his iPhone of the US Air flight 1549 crash in the Hudson River this afternoon. Krums, who posted the picture on his Twitter account, @jkrums, was speaking live as a witness on MSNBC within minutes of capturing the image. ...
Plane crash in NYC captured on real-time web
Scobleizer —
... was made by Janis Krums on his iPhone and posted to Twitter. He was on one of the first ferries to get to the scene, just minutes after the crash. ...
Citizen photo of Hudson plane crash shows Web's reporting power
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... The astounding photo below, apparently taken from a river ferry by traveler and Twitter user Janis Krums, is one of the earliest photos to emerge of the ...
iPhone + Twitter = Dynamic Duo for Citizen Journalism
iPhone News Feeds —
... Earlier today, when a US Airways plane crashed in New York, the first photo of the rescue scene was posted by Janis Krums - via Twitter on his iPhone while he was aboard one of the first rescue ferries. ...
iPhone, Twitter on the scene of the plan crash
iPhone Buzz —
... Since I think it's part of the iPhone revolution, it's interesting to post here about the role of a "citizen journalist" who are using the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash. ...
iPhone, Twitter on the scene of the plane crash
Top iPhone News —
... Since I think it’s part of the iPhone revolution, it’s interesting to post here about the role of a “citizen journalist” who are using the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash. ...
It's About People, Not Technology
A VC —
... It's also, as Ari points out, the services that are supporting it that make twitter what it is. Twitpic, which Janis Krums used to post that photo to twitter, is a great service that I use from time to time. And there are literally thousands of other services built on top of twitter that we can use to do things that the twitter service itself doesn't do. ...
iPhone pix making front pages
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... River ferry boat when the pilot plunged the airliner into the frigid waters yesterday afternoon. His picture of the sinking aircraft, with passengers knee deep in water on the right wing helped tell the story in a single image, and his dramatic shot was splashed on front pages across the country. Krums used Twitpic to publish his photo, and that service was soon shut down by high traffic. He was interviewed on MSNBC and kept his friends up to date on his Twitter feed. Flickr is also displaying lots of photos from the scene, many of them ...
Twitter: It's About People, Not Technology
Silicon Alley Insider —
... , which Janis Krums used to post that photo to twitter, is a great service that I use from time to time. And there are literally thousands of other services built on top of twitter that we can use to do things that the twitter service itself doesn't do. ...
Can You Be Taxed For Being A Citizen Journalist?
AppScout —
... Let's take the guy who Twittered from the ferry which picked up the Flight 1549 passengers. What would his one-of-a-kind photo have fetched on the open market? Can the IRS consider his shot a gift to the various news agencies and websites that used it and tax him on that open market value? Seemingly, yes. ...
