So you think the line between physical and virtual realities have blurred? Wait until you hear this news: a street in a Palestinian refugee camp was named after a Twitter account.
Arjan El Fassed, a Dutch-Palestinian blogger and lobbyist, named a street in the Askar camp after his Twitter handle @arjanelfassed.
Wired reported that naming each of the 200 streets in the camp costs $146. The money goes to the Palestinian Child Care Society (PCCS) and is invested in after-school activities for Palestinian children. El Fassed was quoted as saying that his act was "a symbolic way to connect both online and offline with the children of Askar."
To me, his act signals something else--the fusion of spatial realms and virtual spaces. Has technology redefined our concept of geography?
Photo credit: arjanelfassed