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By: Twitter really IS my other blog plus a microblogging tip | Broadcasting Brain

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:39:03 +0000

[...] Continuing with verse 2 of yesterday’s Twitter riff… [...]

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:28:41 +0000

@Adam – yes, I've heard Twitter called the Water Cooler before, but I think it can be more than that

@iGoByDoc – my point, however, is that the original web logs were not used for long form posts and that “blogs” evolved into long-form content management systems.

@Kaitlin – I really must check out Twitpic

By: insideislamblog

insideislamblog — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:22:00 +0000

Twitpic is the replacement tumblr.

By: iGoByDoc

iGoByDoc — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:52:55 +0000

I do not think Twitter replaces your blog at all, I think Twitter can enhance your blogging activities. Sometimes you need to say more than the 140 characters, and on twitter you just can not do that.

Now, if you are person w/o a blog, that may be another story.

- Doc

By: AdamSinger

AdamSinger — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:52:47 +0000

Yes and no…the one thing is with your blog, there is the feeling of individuality – Twitter feels more to me like the water cooler of the internet.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:21:07 +0000

Hi Jeber! You can do similar things with the Twurl bookmark. You can use it to automate link creation and post to your Twitter account automatically.

By: jeber

jeber — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:20:04 +0000

I find Tumblr to be the easiest mini-blogging platform. Using “Share on Tumblr” bookmark, I can post near anything with a couple of clicks without having to go to the site.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:09:56 +0000

ok, gotcha

By: Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Neal "thePuck" Jansons — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:03:09 +0000

Oh, of course, and I do get involved in the community, I am a chatter, not just a microblogger. I use it for both. But I understand the people who just use it like a blog, without the chatting and back-and-forth. I'm just not one of them.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:01:17 +0000

I would argue that blogging has evolved past the original link posting, “journal of my web surfing” to primary long form content. It's not wrong by any means, I'm just saying that microblogging has taken over a lot of what the original web logs used to do, just like how people automate the posting of their social bookmarks into their “blogs”.