Bad Twitter feeds are full of the minutiae of people's lives… good Twitter feeds are like little blogposts. But while 140 characters is wonderful for pithy aphorisms, it is no substitute for the rich language of a well-written blog post.

I will post maybe two to five tweets a week… and twice as many “real” blogposts. But I have seen other bloggers go off the deep end, neglecting their blogs but spewing forth hundreds of tweets. Feh.

In the ideal world, there's a scenario in which the quick, viral nature of Twitter, the “selected audience” character and interactivity of Facebook, and the “throw it on the wall and see what sticks” quality of blogging reach a dynamic equilibrium, complementing and enhancing each other. We'll see.

Bad Twitter feeds are full of the minutiae of people's lives… good Twitter feeds are like little blogposts. But while 140 characters is wonderful for pithy aphorisms, it is no substitute for the rich language of a well-written blog post.

I will post maybe two to five tweets a week… and twice as many “real” blogposts. But I have seen other bloggers go off the deep end, neglecting their blogs but spewing forth hundreds of tweets. Feh.

In the ideal world, there's a scenario in which the quick, viral nature of Twitter, the “selected audience” character and interactivity of Facebook, and the “throw it on the wall and see what sticks” quality of blogging reach a dynamic equilibrium, complementing and enhancing each other. We'll see.

800 posts a year is a lot! Good work man.

I agree, if utilized properly, Twitter can be a gold-mine for new ideas, conversations, links, etc.

“Facebook and Twitter are not going away” …. let's quote you on that in, say, 5 years? Keen to know what their future will be and what is the next big thing after them both. Then again, Flickr is still alive and kicking after 5+ years.

Sorry to give you a bout of depression.

I am blogging much more than I ever have, and will hit 1,000 posts before the end of this month — over 800 of those this year alone. There's also much greater variety in content. I am posting pictures, comments on websites, quotes from news articles, youtube videos… a lot of sound-bites, along with the longer more considered posts.

Culturally, I think the move to shorter and shorter posts is probably bad. But you can't close Pandora's box…it's here, and Facebook and Twitter are not going away.

Still not willing to delete the site or give up my domain, though. I guess I have a shred of hope somewhere that someday I might be able to resurrect it from the dead.

OMG, how depressing…

In the interwebs, Joseph Schumpeter's model of creative destruction allows for parsing even smaller ideas faster and wider. Look at Evan Williams, one of the originators of Blogger go to work on twitter because he realized “bigger is NOT better” but twitter is mostly viral. I mean, I do enjoy your blog posts but I enjoy your tweets better 'cause is the conglomeration of thought and content at different intervals that makes interesting, especially when links are involved. Links back to your blog.