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This week a New York museum dedicated to commemorating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, launched a web site and asked for submissions of amateur photos and videos shot that day. The museum, scheduled to open in three years, has already collected thousands.
The day is said by some to be the most heavily documented ever by amateurs - and whether it was or not is beside the point. It was in any case symbolic of the transition from a world of The Media to a world of ubiquitous,…