Faster by the second

How fast in the news business changing? Consider these links I ran across just this morning.

Me and my mic: Kevin Sites is the ultimate backpacker journalist. Toting his gear from war zone to disaster area to border conflict, uploading video via cameraphone and talking to people on the ground, he's a walking one-man TV crew.

Follow your nose: A site now allows you to paw through headlines in a spider web fashion, rather than plain-old news columns up and down. Fascinating and time-wasting, but still fascinating. A thesaurus version of this idea has been around for a while.

Citizen journalists: That's what CNN calls them, those people who get video of plane crashes and hurricanes blowing through, then send in the tape. Increasingly, the video is just turning up online, randomly.

Citizen editors: Esquire let people edit a story on the Wikipedia site, which hundreds and hundreds did. Why write a letter to the editor? Edit the damn thing yourself.