"If only there were some way of getting into the collective stream-of-consciousness of the crowd, to gauge their actual reactions to what was really going on up on stage… If you’ve never heard of EtherPEG, it’s a Mac hack that’s been around for a while that combines all of the modern conveniences of a packet sniffer with the good old-fashioned friendliness of a graphics rendering library, to show you whatever GIFs and JPEGs are flying around on your network. It’s sort of a real-time meta browser that dynamically builds a view of other people’s browsers, built up as other people look around online."