2010 MeFiLiveBlog January 1, 2011 11:06 PM Subscribe
MeFi Liveblogging 2010 Year in Review! Please share your favorite (or not so favorite but memorable) posts to MetaFilter from last year that were about events unfolding live in real-time.
Mine has to be the Wimbledon Deathmatch. Mainly, because, well, I can't recall any others.
Mine has to be the Wimbledon Deathmatch. Mainly, because, well, I can't recall any others.
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Both are more discussion than live updates, but this is what I got through the list of favourite posts of the past 30 days:
- Silenced protest, about the prisoners' strikes in Georgia's state prisons
- "For the chaotic good", about the DDoS attacks by Anonymous
Was ballon boy this year or last? Because there was a thread.
posted by cjorgensen at 8:38 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by cjorgensen at 8:38 AM on January 2, 2011
I was thinking of balloon boy as well, but that was 2009. Wasn't there something about the volcano, though?
posted by rjs at 8:59 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by rjs at 8:59 AM on January 2, 2011
I was thinking of balloon boy as well, but that was 2009.
*Sigh* How quickly they grow. And before we know it he'll be Balloon Man.
posted by scalefree at 9:19 AM on January 2, 2011
*Sigh* How quickly they grow. And before we know it he'll be Balloon Man.
posted by scalefree at 9:19 AM on January 2, 2011
We also had Steven Slater, which died with more of a whimper than Balloon Boy's reality-show-self-destruct bang.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:33 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:33 AM on January 2, 2011
The late great Shmegegge did some minor liveblogging of a Cave Story playthrough here.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:47 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by Rock Steady at 9:47 AM on January 2, 2011
The miners coming up was talked about here live, iirc.
posted by ifjuly at 11:04 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by ifjuly at 11:04 AM on January 2, 2011
Shmegegge died?! I didn't see a MeTa post! What happened?
posted by tzikeh at 11:44 AM on January 2, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by tzikeh at 11:44 AM on January 2, 2011 [1 favorite]
Shmeg is fine, he just closed his mefi account.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:46 AM on January 2, 2011
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:46 AM on January 2, 2011
Oops. I meant "late" in the MeFi only sense, of course. Sorry for panicking people unneccesarily.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:03 PM on January 2, 2011
posted by Rock Steady at 1:03 PM on January 2, 2011
And the posts in the live blogging metatopic have finally ground to an inevitable halt. Wait! There's one more, after two long days! Perhaps there's still hope.
posted by msalt at 11:41 AM on January 4, 2011
posted by msalt at 11:41 AM on January 4, 2011
Yahoo shutting down delicious had a lot of people making plans for what they'd do next in-thread in a sort of realtime way.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:48 PM on January 4, 2011
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:48 PM on January 4, 2011
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