As the news came out of Mumbai last night, the mainstream media was struggling for details.Not for the first time, those on the ground were able to provide a series of reports, rumours, videos and pictures, which slowly fell together into a pretty harrowing jigsaw. Perhaps most startling are the pictures of photographer Vinukumar Ranganathan receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors to his Flickr pages to show over 100 dramatic photos of the grim scenes. Online encyclopedia sites including Wikipedia and Mahalo , as well as the citizen media aggregators NowPublic and GroundReport are being constantly updated with new information.With the sheer scale and number of attacks making it difficult to find a coherent picture, many resorted to Twitter , and snippets of information about the attacks pinged from from mobile phones every second as people described the horrors around them, while a Google map sprang up with details of the attack site.But one significant development in this citizen reporting was that, as noted by Lloyd , the Indian government asked that the live Twitter updates cease to prevent the perpetrators gaining operational information. A strange sort of tribute to the strength of an emerging media and it seems like a landmark, somehow, in its development.