that's just weird...

[acroyear]

Years ago, I first learned of the death of Graham Chapman on the VaxBB - first time I learned of an event "online".

A couple years later, I first learned of the death of Stevie Ray Vaughn on usenet - first time I learned of an event from the internet itself.

Fast forward years later, I first learned of the accident that killed Princess Di on Yahoo news - first time I was following an event "in real time", constantly refreshing the home page to look for updates.

Now there's news via facebook, and news via twitter, and all that...but today was just weird.

I learned today of the final decision in Al Franken's favor not from the news, and not just from plurk (a twitter-like system, but threaded), but from a very unique plurk user...

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Seriously, whomever has been doing WilliamShakespeare at Plurk is a damned genius (even if just a genius at google). The quotes when aiming for current events have been astounding, with election day being a brilliant thing all day long.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Oh that was marvelous.