What a great BLOG POST. Can you find anything like this on Twitter? Absolutely not. You can find a link to it, which is why I keep twitter…and why I started tweeting. To provide a source of reference to my “followersâ€. Every so often, I’ll post a mini-rant, or a humorous thought or RT one from someone else. But micro-blogging has absolutely cut a huge hole in the amount of good writing amongst those who should know better.
by constantly micro-broadcasting everything, we’ve ended up macro-remembering almost nothing
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity
Leo’s post that got widely retweeted yesterday undoubtedly prompted many articles like this, including one from me yesterday, and I’m still fired up about it. I’m always rolling my eyes when someone tweets something with absolutely no explanation , like “Wow, that was weirdâ€â€¦and that’s it. Okay. Thanks for sharing that. Sheesh.