28 Nov 08
More comment: a Desperate Need for Context
om said: “I have been glued to my computer screen — actually three of them”
tweetip: No amount of filtering offered by a service will prevent this emotion within you.
For us, we felt a solid understanding of the facts, and trajectory [of Mumbai], within a few hours. Our system continued to filter the throttled twitter firehose. Today, our first impressions remain correct.
A bigger issue remains - few of us have the web presence to broadcast these [early] facts to affect the trajectory of the bandwagon.