I'm watching Michael Jackson funeral right now over the CNN live.
What's amazing about this event is the interactivity with the audience. Everyone who's watching it over the internet can see the stream of Facebook status updates of other viewers. The result is a live conversation between the readers.
Instead of listening to the journalists giving their non-stop perspective of what's going on you can simply draw conclusions of what this event really means from reading what people are saying about it at this very moment. There's everything -- big emotions (I'm gonna cry all night), good wishes (RIP), memories of MJ, comments on the funeral (wow, I could see the golden coffin from the car window!), regrets (wish I could be there), daydreaming (what if he would jump out of the coffin right now and start beating?? How cool would that be?) etc.
And some people just get very excited about having the chance to actually get involved like this at this event.
It's amazing, really -- bringing together Michael Jackson fan-base like this at his funeral is truly significant. Offline and online get mixed -- welcome future!
I watched it as well and was watching the Facebook feed very closely...this is the new type of TV...I think very soon we'll be seeing such interactive feeds for these type of events on TV and not just online...perhaps the voice over commentator will become obsolete all together?
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