Errata

Some time last week or so I had a half post here, and I think I’ve condensed my thoughts a bit better.

I’ve been on a bit of a circuitous route with publishing content, lately.  A while back, I posted everything to my blog, before I got into any of this WordPress madness.  I literally had a text field and a date field, and that was it.  Twitter has then taken up a lot of my attention, and I migrated more towards it when I transitioned to a more “legit” blogging system.

Also, can I say again that I really had the word “blog” ?  Can’t we just start over and get a new word?

My point

Currently, I feel like I’m a bit between worlds, and I’m having more trouble figuring out what the point to Twitter is if I can just write more in depth versions of my thoughts in here.  Twitter works really well in terms of aggregating content, finding the real point; but without other avenues (links outside), there’s absolutely no chance to tell a story.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between producing and filtering: blogs, large / long content is certainly more production oriented.  The trouble, then, is that there’s just so much shit out there that it’s impossible to make sense of it all.  This is where Twitter stepped in, and it’s maintained it’s vantage point here for explicitly this reason.  Twitter is a filter, and nearly nothing about production; and that’s more a strength than a weakness.  We don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath water, and keeping messages reduced to headlines alone allows us to cope.