Leo Laporte recently wrote something I have been long thinking about. The use of microblogs and other similar services is somewhat of an act of shouting into an echo chamber where it’s hard to attract interest, because everyone else is shouting equally hard as well.

For some reason Leo had come across a bug in his Google Buzz stream that failed his profile to post updates to his followers. These updates should have also been posted to Twitter from his Buzz stream. Except that they weren’t – for about 16 days. Leo has 17 000 people following him, he’s one of the most well known tech podcasters out there and no one noticed.

I’ve become something of a passive follower of Twitter as fell. Tonight I realised I hadn’t kept Tweetie (app for Mac I use to follow Twitter) open all day – and I didn’t miss it at all.

All these small issues have yet again told me that blogging is one of the biggest and best ways to pass your thoughts along. People still read blogs. Each month about 20 000 people read ArcticStartup. I’ve long, no let me correct that, far too long neglected my blog that I’ve kept active for about 8-9 years now. It’s time I got back to blogging a bit more.

If it’s worth sitting down and taking the time to write about it – it’s usually worth the read as well.

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