Pre-Live Tweeting the 86th Annual Academy Awards: The Gravity of Living in the Moment

Video killed the radio star decades ago. Internet killed everything else. Personally, it utterly destroyed living in the moment. Too often, as I watch my favorite television shows or awards shows I'm either "status messaging" on Zuckerbook or "live tweeting" on Twitter as the action unfolds. It's a wonderful interactive way of experience a show with million web crawlers, but it also crushes the wonderment of individually watching something intently. I bring this up because recently I live tweete...