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.