Twitter Has Displaced Old-Fashioned Blogging
Intel geek extraordinaire Josh Bancroft notes that Twitter has "sucked the life out of [his] blog". I posted the following as a comment, but in an effort to give any semblance of life to this blog I'm gonna repost it here:
Updating Twitter is much easier than updating my blog; it seems like "what my cat ate today" posts are encouraged on Twitter whereas posting something like that on an old-fashioned blog practically relegates you to a Live Journal/MySpace-only crowd.
The bar has been lowered (at least for now) and so writing anything on Twitter is much easier than having to come up with a whole blog post. You know, the kind that require thought and *gasp* maybe even research? Maybe it's just easier to swallow "what my cat ate today" tweets since they're limited to 140 characters, and blog posts can drag on, and on, and on…
In other news, I'm still waiting on a Wordpress plugin that automatically adds "Add me on Twitter" links to every post so I don't have to.
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