Read about and watch Rahaf Harfoush’s Exclusive Interview of Noel Hidalgo (@noneck) Video Blogger deported from China for Taping Protest: http://blip.tv/play/AcfaboyfXg
Citizen journalism is a really significant real-world application for microsharing tools. Qik.com and other mobile videostreaming-from-your-phone applications make it easy to get coverage of an event out to the world quickly, in more or less real time.
They also don’t leave video footage on your device and vulnerable to seizure. As strongly as the Chinese government reacted, they couldn’t do a thing about the video already streamed safely to the viewing public, and they didn’t have the direct evidence they would have if the video was still on Hidalgo’s phone. That’s really significant.
“They were more concerned about what images we had on cameras than anything else.” -Noel Hidalgo
(Via @rahafharfoush.)
