Digital center of world's Occupy movement is here...

Geographic center of
continental US (Wikipedia)

They don't call it the heartland for nothing.

Although the center of the conterminous United States is in a park near Lebanon, Kansas, the digital hub of the world's Occupy movement is a little north, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Unemployed, 25-year-old Ella (no last name, please) failed to get a ride to Zucotti park, so she stayed home and created what has become the online hub of the global Occupy movement.

In a great scoop by the Omaha World-Herald, Matthew Hansen and Chris Dorwart chronicle the birth of the wildly popular occupytogether.org, to which, by Oct. 3, one of every 2000 Internet users IN THE WORLD had surfed. As of then the website got ten times as many hits as Huskers.com, ground zero for internet users in this football-mad state.

The site now lists protests or meetings in thousands of cities and towns in every continent except Antarctica.

They say they brainstormed the idea and began designing the site about 8 p.m. one night, Ella said. They finished about 3 a.m.

     Occupy Together went live Sept. 23. Almost immediately, its server started to strain under the weight of tens of thousands of hits an hour.

     It crashed, and then crashed again and again, until a donor who wants to remain anonymous gave them $1,000 to buy more server space...
     Ella said they have declined every donation (except to buy server space) and have declined to raise money.

RELATED: Although many websites have published incendiary (but necessary) Occupy Wall St. videos of cops abusing protesters, nothing AKSARBENT has seen captures the Zen of the movement as well as these two, short fantastically artful films that we discovered on — you guessed it — occupytogether.org.