NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web

The assumption at all of these events is the same: real-time is where we’re heading; real time is good. Newspapers were good, cable news was great, blogs were better, instant attention bursts are best.

Hmmmm.

This week, the Christian Science Monitor reported that American judges are having to remind jurors that they’re not allowed to tweet from the jury room. I shit you not. In February, a juror in the trial of an Arkansas lumber supplier tweeted – during deliberations – his opinion that the defendant’s company will “probably cease to exist, now that their wallet is 12m lighter.” Meanwhile in Philadelphia, a juror posted daily updates from the courtroom including – and this is awesome – on the eve of their verdict: “stay in touch for a big announcement on Monday everyone.”

via NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web.

Posted by unruh on October 25, 2009.

Tags: real-time web, rtw

Categories: Group Mind Dynamics

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