http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216498 Blogging more or less because of Twitter? | Broadcasting Brain Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:37:42 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216498 [...] Gahran, who I’ve been following on Twitter, writes an interesting post about her experiences using Twitter vs. her standard blogs.  Quoting from her post: …I remember that blogs have always been an awkward tool to satisfy [...] [...] Gahran, who I’ve been following on Twitter, writes an interesting post about her experiences using Twitter vs. her standard blogs.  Quoting from her post: …I remember that blogs have always been an awkward tool to satisfy [...]

]]> http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216497 Mark Dykeman Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:18:52 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216497 This deserves a post unto itself rather than a comment. Thought-provoking article, I'll link back to it. This deserves a post unto itself rather than a comment. Thought-provoking article, I’ll link back to it.

]]> http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216436 Dave Poulson Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:04:04 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/19/twitter-up-blogging-down/#comment-1216436 I agree - from the writer's point of view. I enjoy sending out that crisp comment that my brain is bursting to release. After all, I've got important ideas circulating between my ears. But ask readers. I much rather read a thought that is fully fleshed out - one that has been considered, augmented, matured and perhaps altered as a result. Maybe that makes me a poor fit for conversational media. But Twitter strikes me as something other than conversation. It is a shout out, a eureka moment, a rough draft that may mature into a transaction that becomes conversational media. I'm new enough to twitter that I'm not yet ready to draw broad conclusions. But to me, twitter is a bit selfish and self-indulgent to be considered conversational media. Perhaps that's why I like it. I agree - from the writer’s point of view. I enjoy sending out that crisp comment that my brain is bursting to release. After all, I’ve got important ideas circulating between my ears.
But ask readers. I much rather read a thought that is fully fleshed out - one that has been considered, augmented, matured and perhaps altered as a result. Maybe that makes me a poor fit for conversational media.
But Twitter strikes me as something other than conversation. It is a shout out, a eureka moment, a rough draft that may mature into a transaction that becomes conversational media.
I’m new enough to twitter that I’m not yet ready to draw broad conclusions. But to me, twitter is a bit selfish and self-indulgent to be considered conversational media.
Perhaps that’s why I like it.

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