I just overheard a colleague saying that British and American citizens have been targeted in a number of simultaneous attacks in Mumbai, India, and that there have been at least 80 people killed. I’m not going to rehash the actual news item here, because it’s already awful now and will probably be worse by the time anyone reads this post. But I do want to point out how well the web as a community is working to collect, analyze, and aggregate all the news. Much information on the attacks can be gleaned from a scan of a few websites:

• news.google.com has automatically collected a set of 458 articles at the time of this writing.
• The Wikipedia article on the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks includes photos and a rundown of all currently known information as well as links and references to articles on the attacks and on the locations and groups involved.
• Vinukumar Ranganathan is a photographer in Mumbai, shooting photos in the danger zone. He has been uploading a series of up-to-the-minute photos that can be viewed in his flickr stream. The shots of bystanders, police with automatic weapons, and the aftermath of explosions are maybe more atmospheric than informative, but it’s interesting to me to see a semi-unedited series of news photos and attempt to piece together an interpretation.

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