Miller on Nye and Twitter

Dennis Miller talks about Bill Nye's collapse at a speech. No one checked on Nye, but hundreds pulled out mobiles to tweet and facebook the event.

Miller points out the tweet storm, particularly how people then began to send out updates about the fact everyone was obsessed with getting the word out.

Nobody is actually at the scene of their own life anymore. They are always somewhere else telling people about their life, but there is nothing going on in their life because no one is talking to anybody next to them anymore.

The L.A. Times blog referenced above had the nut quote:

Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason, USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening.

More here from the Mercury News blog.