I am a marooned Plinth Heckler. Poor planning for my house-move has meant that the Internet will not be in my new home until a week Friday; I have no Internet platform from which to hurl encouraging and constructively critical remarks from. Plinth viewing is out of the question. For all I know, the Plinth could have been sabotaged by a rowdy group of protestors waving banners, or the Plinth has been shut down by a censoring government. Or it has been host to a succession of phenomenal Plinthers who have redefined Gormley's 'One & Other' through incredibly thought-provoking plinth activity. I suspect there has certainly been more nudity.

So, being isolated from the compulsive plinth-viewing that has gripped so many, one alternative is to move into the National Portrait Gallery (but I've heard the rent is quite high).

Such is the power of the Internet: without it I am a stranded Heckler. This is part of the modernity of 'One & Other'; it could only exist now, in this age of Internet globalisation. Would the Victorians have put the logistical effort into such an Artistic statement? Not when the only viewers would have been passing bankers and nannies with prams. Even fifteen years ago, before social networking and the rapid boom of the Internet, this project would certainly not have had the mass appeal it has received.

Gordon Brown said earlier this year that "a fast internet connection is ... an essential service, as indispensable as electricity, gas and water." The Private Eye poked fun at this statement by publishing a cartoon of two men begging on the streets of London, one holding a sign saying 'homeless', the other holding a sign saying 'slow broadband'. A cynical view indeed, but now that I don't have the Internet I can certainly see the logic behind Brown's reasoning. Internet may not be able to compete with food and water in the survival stakes, but it is needed to function and live in 2009 Britain: in employment and in social interaction.

oneandother.co.uk was reported as the most visited arts site of the month of July. A blog article by Lee Bryant published on the Headshift website this week sums up the integral part that the Internet and social media has played for One & Other, declaring that "The project has taught us some useful lessons about online engagement and what we mean by 'social', but overall it has boosted my faith in (online) humanity."

Many Plinthers have themselves explored the use of the Internet in original and creative ways. Here are just a few:

Plinthipaul used Twitter and his website to request suggestions on experiments he could conduct on the Plinth, including: "How far will a bouncy ball bounce? It's all very well chucking toast off a plinth, but what about something bouncy - will a ball leave the Square?!" and "Nudity on the plinth: How long can Paul spend naked on the plinth before being made to dress again." Smartly dressed and equipped with an array of crazy props, Paul's Plinth hour looked like a cross between the old TV shows 'Tomorrow's World' and 'It'll Never Work' - and just as entertaining!

Twitter users Dave Piper (@ontheplinth) and @peregr1n enjoyed delivering 'live on the plinth' updates to twitter and skype. Julia Gilbert (@catnip) also wanted to "demonstrate the benefits of web technology" by tweeting throughout her hour.

Poet Karen Head (@poetphd) combined creative writing with Internet technology by crafting a real-time poem with tweets. You can watch a report about Karen on American website time.com or watch Karen's full poetic hour here.

Two Plinthers recommended to me by hecklers on Twitter are Gunter and Jen Evans; let me know what you think.

The oneandother.co.uk site has been as much a platform for Plinthers as the Plinth itself; I hope it continues to be a fundamental and fun part of this project to the end. I leave you with a few quotes on the World Wide Web:

"The Internet is the world's largest library.  It's just that all the books are on the floor."  ~John Allen Paulos

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame."  ~M.G. Sriram

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."  ~Robert Wilensky, 1996