Back To Blogging And Reading Blogs

30/08/2009

I’m travelling about 100km an hour at the moment in a friend’s car and taking a break from cleaning my Google Reader to write this post. I’ve been thinking recently that there is little value added in being online in the real-time conversation tools such as twitter et al. compared to reading more thoughtful pieces of writing or watching properly done videos.

Twitter in its architecture is one that doesn’t attract me too much. Why? It totally lacks the possibility to have proper discussions. Jaiku had that, but as we all know Jaiku didn’t do too well in the jet streams of its founders flying off to work for the big G. Blogs on the other hand are one of the best platforms for good and thoughtful discussion. I’ve come to realise I miss that.

Hence, I’m trying to get back to blogging more and reading blogs. There’s more to the world than 140 characters and you certainly can’t grasp most of the situations you come across in those characters.

There are 5 comments in this article:

  1. 30/08/2009Stefan Constantinescu say:

    I don’t see it as an either/or argument. You don’t either read blogs and stay off of twitter, or stay on twitter and read blogs. They both compliment each other. Some say Twitter is replacing the RSS reader, but we both know that’s a load of bullshit.

  2. 30/08/2009Antti say:

    I know. However, in my case I just can’t find the time to do both. Thus my reasoning is that if I want to keep myself somewhat up-to-date with what’s going on in the world, I focus on blogs.

    Let’s put it this way, when you have little time to spend, Twitter has a poorer time used to value ration than blogs, imho. Then again, it depends which blogs you’re reading (and which twitter users, but still).

  3. 30/08/2009Chiva Congelado say:

    Get a good twitter client and prune the people you follow. Some of my blog posts started as insight in Twitter.

  4. 31/08/2009Perttu Tolvanen say:

    Both have their merits, but I definitely support Antti in this view. It is a shame that many blogs are dying out of conversation – partly because of Twitter. It would seem that there is also a lack of thoughtful commenting in many places. Are we using Facebook and Twitter too much? For example our blog Vierityspalkki has always had good quality commenting, but even that is now fading a little bit. I also good blog discussions. You can make comments using 140 characters but you cant really make analysis.

  5. 1/09/2009Antti say:

    Chiva, I use TweetDeck. It’s a good client and it’s easy to follow tweets and trends through it, but really hard to have (proper) discussions.

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