First time

This weekend was something of a watershed - it's the first time that I learned of a major world event from a weblog.

Whilst playing with NewsMonsterI was looking at an article on boingboingreading about transparent iBook covers. boingboinggot the article from Charlie Stross, so I followed along to read some more. The newest entry on Charlie's page was " Oh fuck", which was about the shuttle.

At that point I bounced off the web and onto TV.

It wasn't a particularly long path from new aggregatorto space disaster, but it wasn't something I'd anticipated.