Thanks to the new Internet, the young are making history and telling the story as it happens…

In some ways, I think we are also now predicting history as we piece together the actions of the masses who post their continuous status – whether it be on Facebook, Twitter or other online social mediums. We document history through blogs, tweets, loopt, etc. and will do so more exponentially as geotagging becomes prevalent over the next few years.

Take the disaster in Mumbai, for example and the microblog buzz about it hours before any major news outlet reported on it this past fall.  Or the story of @jamesbuck who tweeted a single word, “Arrested” from Egypt and ignited action across the globe in Berkeley, CA.  I had just started using Twitter and did not understand it’s power, until I heard the story of @jamesbuck… and I was glued to the story and my Twitter account for days.