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Update: At the moment — 6/30/2013/0850EDT — Ustream’s “Tahrir-sq-live” is dead, off the air, silent.
With photography, one always knows where the photographer stood; with what I saw this morning, one stands where the photographer stands.
Already, I miss being there, in it, from six hours away in the west.
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tahrir-sq-live
And there we are — split screen: on the left side of my screen, a live camera broadcasting live from the demonstration — no edits, cutaways, voice overs (well, not much) . . . pure data; and on the right side, my blog’s composing tile.
Chanting, horns, whistles . . . waving tricolors . . . a milling crowd ย . . . a littered location —
Oh crap.
Thirty-second commercials . . . .
Inline pop-ups.
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I would really rather see advertising in blocks around the main tile — annoying but not invasive.
My grousing aside, the appearance and adaptation of new technologies would seem a part of every conflict: look what we can do!
Now.
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