New mobile technologies outspeed military control

An interesting entry on Smart Mobs, regarding the usage and speed of new mobile technologies, allowing for the transmission of news and images, beyond government control or censorship.

"Journalists covering the current war are able to use mobile technologies to speedily and inexpensively absorb, compile, and transmit information. This might lead to outspeeding military authorities, or outflanking their information control.

For example, a reporter from the Orange County Register snapped a picture of wounded US Marine Brent Gross, then beamed the image back home, where the Gross family pulled it from a fax... all before the Pentagon got to it."

emily | 9:10 AM | News, Buzz |
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