Screencast of Wikipedia's page on the London Bombings

This is so cool.

Duncan Rawlinson on his blog The Last Minute has a screencast of Wikipedia's page on the London Bombings. The page is listed as a 'current event' which means that it is one that is subject to much change as the incident occurs. The twist is the page is usually created within minutes of the news breaking and updates constantly as more information becomes available.

What Mr Rawlinson has done is capture each of the 936 updates individually and then string them together into a movie which is available for download here. (it's pretty meaty, 40MB)

This is yet another example of grassroots media. We (collective, not me and Noel) are taking control of the news. When the news broke it was people on the streets, the bloggers that were feeding our desire for info; it was people with camera phones that were providing the first images and videos, in some instances where the press could not get.

Were taking back the reigns of information distribution and it makes me want to cry.

via the social software blog