You've probably noticed that the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is coming around in a few days time. There's a lot a material around covering all sorts of aspects, but one of the things that I distinctly remember (as a distant observer) was that there were a lot of important things happening, but it was hard to find out what was happening because the 2001-era web couldn't cope with the thirst for information. I wrote about it few days afterwards because it was probably the first time that the web had to deal with such a monumental news story.
In some respects the situation is very different ten years on. News sites are much more resilient, Twitter gives us real-time updates of major events, YouTube can give us raw eyewitness footage just minutes after things have happened. But the recent attacks in Oslo demonstrate just how fragile technology can still be.
Anyway, you can read my thoughts a decade on here if you like.
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