Glorietta blast videos net 46,000 views on YouTube

As of today, more than 46,000 people have viewed Gambit01’s Glorietta blast videos posted two YouTube.

Watch the videos here and here.

Taken using a camera phone, Gambit01’s videos are currently the “most watched” among a number of videos taken immediately after the terrible incident last week.

As for photos, Disney Cute Land is perhaps the most popular source.

One lesson learned in this case is that we should be ready to use our gadgets to document events that happen right before our very eyes. Gambit01, for example, may have been anxious about his personal security but he immediately passed on his videos to me for posting over the net and for more widespread use by the media. Disney Cute Land could’ve removed the photos but he didn’t.

Public interest was obviously served by providing these videos and photos, and gives credibility to the cause of citizen journalism in the Philippines.