Twittering more than blogging
04.29.07Update: This post was linked to by the BBC today, it's the second time I've had a pull quote linked on the Tech section and I always get the most hillariously hostile comments! This one's my favorite from this thread: "Blogging is like wearing a coat that says I am Billy No Mates." Is that adorable or what? Much nicer than the really crude stuff I got last time. Keep up the good work BBC readers!
I was honestly woken up last week by the fear that I would stop blogging because Twitter is so much more compelling. The desktop tool Twitterific even more so. That's not entirely the case, but I have been Twittering many a tweet lately. I thought it was stupid when I first heard about this short messaging system but now I love it. I won't write an ode to twitter here, but just wanted to note my current affinity for very short form writing. Believe it or not, launching the blog editor page, coming up with a title, spell checking, chosing a category - is just more work than I want to do to share many short thoughts throughout the day.
I do want to write a long post here asap about media embargoes. I think they're fascinating and the one we've got at SplashCast on an announcement we're making tommorow morning has been an interesting experience to see unfold. So I'll post some thoughts about that here soon. Thanks for stopping by!
April 30th, 2007 at
hello i ended up at your site through the BBC’s technology page where a quote from your blog was showcased. i’m just curious as to whether you were first contacted by the BBC before your quote appeared or if you were unaware that you were linked by the BBC entirely. (i’m an academic researcher interested in mainstream media and it’s increasing incorporation of blogs into news output) thanks very much for your time!!
April 30th, 2007 at
Oh no… another stupid net craze to promote atrociously bad grammer and spelling. I thought blogging was bad enough (I read very few, and only came here thanks to the BBC). I don’t really want to know about what people are doing/thinking by reading about it, I’ll ask them in person. Blogs that are articles by proper writers are okay, though. Take your time to write articles that are worth reading - I don’t want to know the nonsense that passes by your consciousness every few minutes (give us something to think about, not thinking about something), it’ll be garbled, badly conceived and ultimately boring.
April 30th, 2007 at
Ooooh! Burn by Joe.
April 30th, 2007 at
JOE writes: Oh no… another stupid net craze to promote atrociously bad grammer and spelling.
Appalling isn’t it
April 30th, 2007 at
[…] From Marshall Kirkpatrick marshallk.com: I was honestly woken up last week by the fear that I would stop blogging because Twitter is so much more compelling. […]
April 30th, 2007 at
Joe, I think you mean ‘grammar’.
April 30th, 2007 at
Joe, you spelt “grammer” wrong, it’s actually grammar, with two “A”s.
April 30th, 2007 at
Twitter? You should get out more.
April 30th, 2007 at
Yeah, very funny. Funny that people take the time to be negative about something that they don’t do themselves. What’s even more dumbfounding are the comments that are made by people who clearly just need to have their own little rude poke at something that doesn’t affect them in the least. Form a “we hate things that others do that we dont and can’t be bothered accepting other peoples point of view” club. Hey, make me a member… I can be your very own punchbag.
Write a blog, use twitter, write a newspaper column… each to their own and the ignorant to themselves.
April 30th, 2007 at
Yeah, what Jay said . . .
April 30th, 2007 at
Joe, did I miss the new law the government passed that means we all have to read this man’s twitter/blog/whatever? If I did then I’m with you as I don’t want to be told what to read, but if no such law exists then don’t read it and stop blithering on about it.
Marshall, carry on mate.
April 30th, 2007 at
I assumed Joe used grammer [sic]ironicalli.
April 30th, 2007 at
what absolute twaddle!
April 30th, 2007 at
Gee, Rena, for an academic researcher you don’t show very good writing skills (poor punctuation such as incorrect apostrophes, lack of capital letters etc.)
April 30th, 2007 at
Joe, you spelt “grammer” wrong, it’s actually grammar, with two “A”s.
By James on 04.30.07 4:25 am
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Would that be graamer then?
April 30th, 2007 at
There’s a place for blogging, and a place for Twittering.
Personally I can’t see the advantage to Twitter yet, partly because I’ve got no friends on it yet
and partly because I wouldn’t tweet by SMS anyway, as my employer pays my cellphone bill and wouldn’t be too pleased…!
April 30th, 2007 at
Wanker!
April 30th, 2007 at
But does twitter have rss and permanent links?
April 30th, 2007 at
The net’s too full of crap anyway, why would anybody more dull pratlings from uncreative bored office workers?
April 30th, 2007 at
such a lot of nonsense - who gives a shit anyway
April 30th, 2007 at
I read all the comments above. Why did I bother? I then wrote this comment you’re reading. Why did I bother with that either? Weird isn’t it?
April 30th, 2007 at
it is best to keep your mouth shut and have have everyone think your stupid, then open it and prove them right.
Great, a new medium for unqualified people to voice their thoughts. Better yet, it enables them to voice incomplete thoughts and leave them completly out of context! now THAT is progresss!
April 30th, 2007 at
“..is just more work than I want to do to share many short thoughts throughout the day”..
If you don’t take the time, why should I?
April 30th, 2007 at
for cheap price on good quality computer hardware, see www.etradehouse.com, so you can do your blogs or twittering or whatever
April 30th, 2007 at
Blogging and bloggers should just go, and you can take twittering with ya too, I mean I got directed here from the BBC site cause I thought it was a BBC link, instead I come here and get your inane wittering.
Blogging, it is like wearing a coat thats says I am Billy No Mates and I have no one to talk to so I will put my banal rubbish on the internet in the vain hope that somewhere, somehow, someone is the least bit interested.
If you had ANYTHING of interest to say, you would say it to your friends and then you wouldn’t need to blog and you could save the internet from becoming some sort of anally retentive waste of time.
You want to “dramatically change the online media landscape”…then stop filling bloggers with the idea that anyone cares, the only people who care about bloggers are other bloggers, who only care because they have to, if they didn’t they would realise no one cared about their blog either and they couldn’t face the rejection, you are a self perpetuating community that can’t face the truth.
If you are not an astronaut, a political pundant, have a strange or interesting job or life, please stop blogging for the sake of humanity.
This is the worst case of the emperor’s new clothes I have seen.
April 30th, 2007 at
Some interesting comments. Personally I don’t think Twittering will be my way to express myself, I find the idea of creating electronic Haikus (spelling ?) (can I patent the term eHaiku ?) just a bit toooo much
.
As to Steves remark above, we all have different things to say. We don’t necessarily ‘expect’ any one to listen, personally I use a blog as diary for myself which other people can read. Some leave comments that may take it in a different spin.
However the main reason for blogging is
“So that I can put my callous heartless nature into sharp relief especially at the end of a particularly unhappy love affair”
I somehow feel Twittering would not provide such a sharpness of vision
Enjoy
April 30th, 2007 at
To the people who cam here to moan and whine - just f*ck off the lot of you! Especially people who can’t spell ‘grammar’.
If you don’t like the man’s blog, just click on another link. Commenting is not obligatory, especially since he is no more likley to take your view seriously than you did his.
If a man wants to write and post it on the Internet, guess what, he can
April 30th, 2007 at
I am the only one who appreciates the irony of people who makes ON-LINE posts about how mindless and boring people are who have on-line blogs?
April 30th, 2007 at
You can be as negative as you like about blogging but the proof is in the stats. I blog and a lot of people read it (to qualify 100s per month), if they didn’t I wouldn’t bother. So stop reading and I will stop blogging!
April 30th, 2007 at
RAE, this is linked on the BBC website, I just checked again this morning….still linked, most of those coming here, me included, didn’t really know where we were going til we got here, then got a bit peeved that we were directed to a bloody blog, yet more media pushing blogs.
Ben, as I said, a self perpetuating, back slapping community that needs to keep itself going or face the reality that no one really cares, what a surprise that you write a blog and read blogs, I bet that the “100s” of readers you have ALL write blogs, the only time blogs get hits from people who don’t write blogs is when they are linked to on media sites like the BBC, in this instance, or when someone is actually trying to find some information and doesn’t really their google search has thrown up a blog, that is unreliable, untested, unproven garbage that can’t be relied on as a source.
This is the main reason I hate blogs and bloggers, you are clogging up my searches when I am looking for real information, and not someones unverified opinion.
April 30th, 2007 at
Methinks people don’t know what “real information” and “someone’s opinion” really are. The scale from ‘truth’ to ‘opinion’ is a continuum. Yes the bbc might be at the ‘truth’ end of the spectrum but there are many blogs that are up their with it. Unfortunately there are many blogs just at the opinion end of the spectrum (alongside quite a few newspapers). Just ask yourself what ‘democracy’ is.. it certainly isn’t ‘truth’.
April 30th, 2007 at
Just had bacon and free-range eggs for breakfast. And wrote a little twitter with no spelling mistakes and grammar that my grandma would approve of.
April 30th, 2007 at
You’re the best, Brenda! Hey, are we related?
May 1st, 2007 at
Yank Fuck-Wit!
May 1st, 2007 at
I’m surprised the BBC even linked to this drivel. Oh well, the internet is the ultimate source of crap. Shit on demand you might say.
May 1st, 2007 at
HA HA HA - This guy looks like a fat fucker.
May 1st, 2007 at
i think it’s clear that blog readers are worse people than bloggers
May 1st, 2007 at
Someone told me to have a look at this. What a load of shit! Trust a fucking moronic American to come up with a load of bollocks like this. We should have executed the lot of them back in the 18th century… Certainly would have saved a lot of trouble in the here and now.
May 1st, 2007 at
Hey Marshall! Ciongrats on being the worst writer on the internet. That’s quite some achivement for a porker like you!
May 1st, 2007 at
Frankly I’m embarassed to be part of a species who make comments like those above. If Marshall is so “moronic” for blogging, surely you lot are “moronic” for blogging a comment back at him. And now I’m a moron for writing this comment. Where will it end?! I’ll tell you, it’ll end when evolution finally does its work and all the cretins spouting needless negativity here have their genes wiped from the gene pool and confined to the dark past where they belong.
May 1st, 2007 at
Hey Dan, why not do something you like instead, like go fuck yourself!
May 1st, 2007 at
kids eh? what you going do?
May 1st, 2007 at
i actually enjoyed the idea of people reading my opinion so much i’m going to post again…
May 1st, 2007 at
etc
May 1st, 2007 at
stupid fuck wit moronic arseholes. the internet is a pile of shit. leftist idiots, anyway. bacon, eggs, breakfast, soak them all in petrol and burn’em alive. Fucking Americans.
May 1st, 2007 at
Having come accross your site by virtue of the BBC science link, i feel i need to respond general to some of the comments i have read there. Eversince i learnt to read i have known i have a problem with spelling and to a cetain degree grammar, it has caused me great problem in both my education and my professional career. Thank god! for spell checkers and to a lesser degree Grammer checkers. So, when responding to the general gist of comments on your site, i have realised how shallow we as a nation have become. It is not the spelling or the grammar that is important it is the what is being written, the sentiment, the logic and the passion. How can we really listen to new ideas, perceptions, opinions etc unless we read what is being said. We don’t constantly correct someone who is not a perfect speaker of english, we compensate and ask relavent questions to structure understanding. We listen to the content of what is being said. Perhaps we should all do that and then we might just might understand one another just that little bit better.
May 1st, 2007 at
Joe,
My grammar is far from perfect (not to mention my grammer) but I think the following sentence would benifit from a semi-colon in place of your rather crude comma.
I don’t really want to know about what people are doing/thinking by reading about it, I’ll ask them in person.
May 1st, 2007 at
Benefit.
May 1st, 2007 at
ahhh, the short-sightedness of the average BBC online reader. They’ll get it… eventually. Just like cellphones and email… it will start with Posh N Becks, spread to the Kate Moss set, filter down through the chavs, then it’ll be “what do you mean, of course I Twitter!”.
May 1st, 2007 at
can some-one please tell me; what is the point of blogging?
May 1st, 2007 at
Well, I like Twitter. Free SMS gateway for geeks like me. And seeing as I get half a bazillion free SMS messages a month I can happily chirp away on it. I don’t care if nobody reads it, it’s a handy notepad.
May 1st, 2007 at
wierdos.
May 1st, 2007 at
weirdos.
May 1st, 2007 at
Thanks for all your comments about my posting. Sorry to Marshall for hijacking his blog. Alas, my typo was real, but your comments prove exactly the point I make - it really gets on people’s nerves!
May 1st, 2007 at
I shall just continue to Fidget…
May 1st, 2007 at
I have no idea how one becomes enamored with Twitter. I tried it but it only took a few weeks before I realized just how boring the whole concept was. My friends don’t care what I am doing very second of the day nor do I want to know what they are up to at all times. The whole idea behind Twitter loses its excitement about 2 days in.
May 1st, 2007 at
“I was honestly woken up last week by the fear that I would stop blogging because Twitter is so much more compelling.”
God forbid anything important crosses your tiny, little mind. You Sir, are an idiot!
May 3rd, 2007 at
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