• James Surowiecki
• Finance writer, New Yorker

• Speaking at TED2005
• February 2005
• Monterey, CA

The moment when social media became the news: James 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.