Double Blind

I noticed on the Pundits’ Guide that when writing about the coverage on the court case dealing with the “in-and-out” case regarding Conservative election expenses in 2006, she mentioned the following:

If you haven’t explored Twitter before, just click on this link: http://twitter.com/CPCvsElxCan, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on the “More” button. Keep repeating until you get to his first post (or “tweet” as they’re called), and then read upwards to get the detail in chronological order. The hearings have been on for two days already, and continue tomorrow morning. To follow them live, visit the same page, and reload it periodically.

This is the future of journalism, and if you’ve ever found yourself complaining about the lack of detail or substance in mainstream media coverage of a story you care about, then you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Glen does a lot within the 140-character limit each “tweet” is confined to.

I am rather interested in the proceedings of this case, but I found reading it via Twitter was nearly impossible. It reminds me of those websites that take long articles and split them up into 10 sections that you have to click on “next” to read the next paragraph (which is designed that way on purpose to maximize page hits and presumably advertising revenues).

I guess I am just getting too old fashioned on the internet, requiring paragraphs to assimilate information properly. If Twitter is indeed the future of disseminating information, I guess I am about to soon be a dinosaur.

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