

TED Talks
James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds
TV-PG
2008 • E167 Nov 5, 2008 19mJames Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.