Twitter

Twitter has always seemed pointless and obnoxious to me, but today I've been fascinated by the twitters coming from Iran and have been following them all day. Literally it's a real-time feed of what's going on there, and it makes traditional news articles seem like stone tablets in comparison. The Boston Globe has a good round-up of twitters, as has Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic (warning that Sullivan's contains graphic pictures).

My current favorite, from some anonymous person in the thick of it:

Ahmadinejad called us Dust, we showed him a sandstorm.

That's first-rate human drama there.