21st century response

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Blogs respond to London blasts
News of the suspected terror attacks across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos.

According to blog tracking service, Technorati, there were more than 1,300 posts about the blasts by 1015 GMT.

With mobile phone networks suffering congestion, blogs and news websites are the way many are gathering detail. [...]

Flickr, the online photo sharing website, has also started to see images from people of the blasts.

A search for "London" reveals one image of the shredded London bus. Others include screenshots of TV news reports and general crowd scenes.

Groups are being set up to pool all the photos which are "tagged" with words such as "explosions", "bomb" and "London". Tagging makes it easier for people to find relevant photos.