Der Spiegel says that bloggers are at the forefront of the information and relief effort. This
is a good example of one. The Belmont Club elaborates on the meaning of this, partly chastizing the MSM types for their obtuseness. Enlightening and (oddly) funny.

The last bastion of the media has now witnessed the birth of a kind of informational artillery, which while still too weak to overthrow its existing walls, must surely in time grow to such a strength as to render their fortress untenable.