Remember the good old days when you had something to say and you wrote a blog post? If it was a topic you were really hot on it might end up being a few posts. The very act of writing the post would help you form opinions and thoughts. If you were lucky it would spur a thought in someone else and they would write about it and link to you.
I know it makes me an old fuddy duddy, but I miss that. Twitter is great, but the instant gratification conversation has acted like a pressure valve that keeps thoughts from becoming big enough to blog about.
The flip side to that argument is that the short snarky crap has moved off my blog. If you can’t make a quick joke in 140 characters then it isn’t funny enough to share. So in theory the quality of my blog posts should have gone up.
UPDATE: On a related note, I haven’t opened my feed reader in a couple of weeks either. GpsAssassins has been taking up too much of my time.
Nice theory, but I think I swung the pendulum too far. It is time to get in the swing of posting more frequently again. And what better way to start blogging more again than to write a blog post about my own blog and my process of blogging.
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I definitely feel the same nostalgia and have trouble being clever in 140 characters. Couldn't they give us like 10 more? Congress seems to be a big fan – I wonder if this will make them consider putting a character cap on their bills? That would be interesting …
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,...
That is so funny! I've been thinking the same thing for a month or so now. I started hitting Twitter pretty hard and found I no longer feel like I have anything to say on my blog. I hate repetition and the quick Twitter jab covers the thought so I don't want to write it in a longer post. I certainly never expected this result.
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