Royal Wedding
It would have been Bertie’s worse nightmare 70 odd years ago when all King George VI of Britain had to contend with were newsreels and the ‘wireless’. However everyone loves a wedding and regardless of whether you are an ardent Monarchist or Republican, who knew the Royal Wedding would be so bloody entertaining.
It was the ideal example of a high profile event effectively channelling digital mass media and in doing so adding an extra somewhat rebellious layer of connection and experience.
Simultaenously watching it unfold on my TV screen, retweeting commentary using the PC and texting family using my third screen, the mobile.
What I found intriguing were the generation divides of who used which media. Older family were purely glued to the telly and promising to send me special edition newspapers (a more sentimental souvenir perhaps in 30 years time then saying “Hey kids look Ma saved you a Quicktime movie of King Williams wedding”). My gen were mainly tweeting and watching it on the web.The even younger ones were busy building facebook pages dedicated to Pippa’s derriere.
The 5 funnest and funniest parts of Friday night for me on were:
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