Citizen journalism goes on all around us every day. It’s the big events that make it real to the masses.

Here’s a twitter from an eye witness who saw the plane go down in the Hudson River.

This is followed by Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida, who was on a ferry picking people up, posting the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone. 30 minutes after he posted the picture, Krums was interviewed live for TV by MSNBC.