"Watching" events online

[john_b_cannon]

The strange feeling of "watching" an earthquake on Facebook: one minute my feed is about this and that, Libya and pop culture; the next, everything is about this. 5.8, everybody's ok, many are scared, many are excited, one fellow has huge cracks in his building. I've watched protests this way on Twitter. I'm reminded of the monitors in the Matrix,

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an event

[anonymous]

b definitely, a very possibly. I think the left has deeply underestimated it in the urge to avoid all the mainstream hype. Understandable, but unfortunate for something so potentially important. Wikileaks and the weird way it formed a sort of pre-cursor to the arab spring felt almost like an event in some quasi-Badouian sense. To be true to such an event would mean what?