Comments on: Back To Blogging And Reading Blogs

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:51:58 +0000

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.

By: Perttu Tolvanen

Perttu Tolvanen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:08:04 +0000

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.

By: Chiva Congelado

Chiva Congelado — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:06:42 +0000

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

By: Antti

Antti — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:53:43 +0000

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).

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:49:00 +0000

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.