over/under(-reporting)?

Given that things have definitely slowed down (to a relative crawl on the blogs I've highlighted, none of which has posted in the past week following a brief spurt), it looks like my project might have me doing some reaching back and a bit of branching out. The ongoing/aftermath aspect is one which keeps developing, in that different accounts seem to provide radically different characterizations of whether this thing is still going on or whether we can 'wrap it up' (as the aminstream Western media surely has) and dissect the remains (or just forget about it). To some extent, this is a necessary problematic - we have a bit of trouble getting a cognitive (practical, political, historical, critical) grasp on 'events' that aren't at some point closed off and encapsulated for our analyzing pleasure; our capacities, understanding, attentions, energies and labour are limited. And one could well make a case that the most unusual or 'important' events were largely those of December and early January. At the same time, it makes good sense that those closer to the events in question maintain a greater sense of temporal continuity and forward thrust (if your friends are in jail and there are riot police hanging around, you might still think that something is going on)...while others are 'moving on' in various ways, or trying to see what can be learned from the recent Greek experience. The online presence of the Greek situation is increasingly sporadic - but it's still kicking, and in some interesting ways. Given that the blogs I'm looking at are turning out not seething with activity at the moment, I continue to consider (and investigate) opportunities for reaching back/branching out.

I'm thinking that my reaching/branching activities (beyond the fairly obvious exploration of the timelines, reporting and commentary preserved on the blogs I've fingered already) should include some online-interview type discussions with anyone I can rope in from the blogs/orgs I'm casting first glances on (the weakensses of elicitation techniques notwithstanding, it would be cool to hear how people see the functions and effedcts of blogging on an ongoing(?) soical revolt/insurrection/protest/whatever)....and definitely entails widening my sphere of reference on the subject: lots of quick-click linking and exploration, keeping up on news services like A-infos (and IndyMedia), and digging in to some of the ongoing bull sessions on some of the bigger anarchist forums...not to mention Twittering, net-disseminated video, etc. The trick is to keep focus (to branch out from a virtual 'somewhere' already defined,to look at a few big 'themes' - and look out for surprises) and not get tangential. There's a lot out there, but the connections (and the differences) may be coming clearer...

On the subject of relative inactivity, independent news-dissemination and the ongoing/aftermath of the Greek riots that spiked in December, the following post from Molly'sBlog raises some interesting questions. Apparently, the occupation of the Athens Opera House widely reported in alternative sources, largely via a single widely-reproduced text, around the 6/7/8th of this month (having begun in late January; see post/link below) actually ended almost a week ago - and this is the first I've heard of it! Molly seemingly found some info on a Finnish Trotskyist site, of all places...

http://mollymew.blogspot.com/2009/02/international-anarchist-movement-greece_12.html