Posts Tagged ‘micro-blogging’

Is Twitter killing this blog?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I sat down to write a post called “Is Twitter killing this blog?” but in the process managed to hose the whole blog while doing an upgrade of the software. I needed back-end access to the server to fix something that went wrong during the upgrade only to find out that there was something wrong with the account such that I was locked out. Thankfully, it didn’t take too long for the nice folks at PlusNet to sort things out and I was able to get the blog back up and running.

However, it took me a couple more weeks to get round to writing this post, so… Is Twitter killing this blog? Well, perhaps not killing it but certainly slowing it down. I can certainly vent minor, trivial thoughts to Twitter, which I might have previously spun into a post here. Also, now that there’s a small band of friends on Twitter, I’m enjoying the banter there… far more feedback there already than here.

In addition, life is fairly settled currently, so there doesn’t seem to be much to write about. And then there’s Ben’s DS. I think I’m catching up for several years of missed computer games. I’m at 97% on Lego Star Wars Saga. I think if I can grind my way to 100% I’ll have definitely maxed out and be able to leave it alone for a while.

Tweet on!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

So, I’ve been wondering about Twitter and was going to wait until the fourth anniversary of this blog to sign up in some bizarre attempt to mark the occasion… and then Louise’s friend invites her to sign up and there was no way that I was going to let Louise beat me to the punch on that one, so we sat there and signed up together.

So — and incidentally I don’t think I’ve started enough clauses in this post with the word “so” so far — now you can follow me and also Louise in (potentially) tedious detail. Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the concept of micro-blogging. There are so many small, ephemeral thoughts I’d like to inflict on share with friends and family that never get as far as this blog.

Now my only issues are whether I should actually be publishing on indenti.ca and what picture to use on my profile.