It's hard work, as someone once said

For those of you who haven't noticed, I've been hard at work over at Fistful for the last day or so, keeping track of all the developments in Ukraine, and hoping that everything gets resolved peacefully without descending into panic on the streets, violence or civil war.

One thing I have noticed, though, is just how much information there is to keep track of and how many sources it's possible to get information from. I'm wondering what the revolutions of 1989 would have been like if we had had the Web and wider internet usage then - or would the spread of information have meant that the revolutions would have happened earlier?