yikes.
starting is easy. finishing is hard. to keep going is harder.
that’s how i feel of this small piece of web real estate called raif.com. hard to believe i haven’t done a single post since august.
besides launching carsala.com, hiring, moving, holidays and many other lame excuses, what’s really happened is called twitter.
twitter has officially replaced my need for ranting, writing, and exposure.
however, lately i’ve been wanting to put together pieces that require more thought than 140 characters. which i believe is a key strength and weakness of twitter. the quickness and immediacy of the 140 characters is very powerful. however, it does lend itself to way too many retweets without commentary or insights, half-baked thoughts and just weak arguments.
as people flock to twitter and the doomsday of blogging is reported everywhere else, i think that there will be a wave of people coming back to blogging for things that they just can’t quite fit into 140 characters.
true, twitter has changed self publishing forever. however, i do believe that both blogging and tweeting will have their place in anyone’s toolbox who believes they have something worth sharing.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Emin // Feb 18, 2009 at 6:21 am
Are your tweets any different than your facebook status? Or do you copy & paste?
2 admin // Feb 18, 2009 at 12:07 pm
i installed the twitter app on my facebook profile which automatically transfers your tweets as your facebook status except for the @replies & DMs (direct messages).
it’s been working ok, but i think that the two channels are different enough that this direct translation doesn’t work that well. i’ve been thinking of shutting it off and keeping them separate which would be more work…
it’s just that twitter and facebook have different audiences and the same messages are not always that relevant to both.
3 srdha // May 20, 2009 at 1:05 am
i gust want to say some thing “great job”
Update your Twitter randomly according to your intrest Or, from Rss Feed Or, from your own tweet message list Or, Any combination of the above three http://feedmytwitter.com
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