Friday, September 12th 2008
End of the world update
Finally I get round to reporting on CERN and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The science is all great, but what was better was the amount of online hype surrounding the launch. To be honest I’m not sure which I was more excited about!
First off, CERN themselves had a live web feed of the actual event, which was so busy on the morning of the launch that I couldn’t get onto it. They had a twitter page, which meant that those of us who couldn’t watch the webcast could be easily kept up to date via the rss feed. It also prevented too much disruption to work ;)
Google created a special logo, with a link to the CERN website. Have you ever heard of better internet marketing? Their website was actually linked to the Google logo, a science site!
On radio 1 they had a reporter on site who updated us on the world not ending. The BBC’s guide to the project was excellent and very in depth.
Sadly someone took the news of the world ending a little too seriously. I think I might let you read that yourselves though.
Posted by Tasha on Friday 12th of September 2008 at 4:07pm
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