There are a bunch of things going on here simultaneously and it may help to separate some of them - one is the difference between people being pushed around by

There are a bunch of things going on here simultaneously and it may help to separate some of them - one is the difference between people being pushed around by realtime, vs. people having aggregators and agents consuming realtime - the human does not need to be glued to the screen to benefit from the feed. But if there is no realtime feed then this is not possible. So if the slow web is about having control, then having access to realtime updates may be important to the slow web... odd as that might sound.