Written By: Alex McManus on April 15, 2009
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Twitter is now
what
blogs were then.
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam
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Jesus did not come to make the world Christian.
He came to make it human again. While many see Jesus as the religious leader that established the Christian religion, Jesus was moved by dreams far greater than this. He dreamed of a world reconnected to the very energy that gave rise to the mysteries of the cosmos and the human consciousness.
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I sort of disagree. They are for different purposes. Blogs are for more lengthy dialog, whereas Twitter is for short bursts of thought. Personally, I don’t understand the attraction of Twitter. Why do I care what others are doing every moment of the day, and why do I care to tell others about such things?
Tweets are much shorter which is good. Though I seem to be following more twitterers so content does not seem - sadly - to be reduced.
Does this mean you’ll be twittering more?
Thanks all….
Rob, Yes that’s true today. But when blogs first came out, we used them for shorts bursts and reserved longer articles for our ezines. In fact, some offered then the same critique about blogs that you offer for twitter now. Today, blogs have replaced ezines and twitter has replaced blogs. But you’re right…because twitter limits the number of words per tweet, it forces us to use it as a pointer to content or as a source of meaningless but very personal updates.
Chris, yes, I will twitter more, but I will blog more too. I’ll simply adjust for their different purposes like Rob suggests.
How about:
Twitter is now
what
tumblogs were then.
Blogs are now
what
newspapers were then.
Facebook is now
what
e-mail was then.