Links (now on Twitter)

It has been well over a year since my experiment with Twitter began. Since then I have become thoroughly hooked, and there has been a corresponding drop-off in those "interesting links" blog posts.

As Tim Harford just tweeted (I still hate that word...)

"Twitter is siphoning off all the stuff we used to put on blogs that really wanted to be a tweet." http://bit.ly/g4u3Cp @doctorow on news

One the fascinating things about the medium is the way it has taken on a life of its own, being used pretty differently to how its creators intended.

So basically, you should really get yourself on twitter. You can always just dip your toe in and have a look around without actually signing up. You can also get my twitter RSS feed without signing up.

Twitter

Yes, it is devil spawn, but I've kind of figured out how to use it (this helps), and so I am mostly posting interesting links there rather than saving them all up for a links blog post (which my housemate always complains about). There is a little box on the right of the webpage, or you can click here. I'll try and remember to keep up some lengthier stuff here and not descend entirely into stunted sentences.

Correction

Sorry Danny, but I got a bit carried away calling the tweet of the week on a Monday. It actually comes from the US ambassador to Kenya.

USAMB4REFORM: Despite warnings by some, I will still speak out supporting reforms in Kenya. President Obama and the Kenyan people demand nothing less!

!!!!

A humble suggestion to any ambassadors in Sudan - fancy twittering about CPA implementation?

Twitter

I now have a twitter account. I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet. Very few of my friends are on it. I've so far just responded to a couple of interesting comments by others.

I was very skeptical when I first heard about it. It sounded stupid. But then so did facebook and blogs when I first heard about them. So I was skeptical but curious.

And then all my favourite blogs started talking about twitter, and then I realised that a load of my favourite bloggers were also on twitter. So I finally caved. My god is this the end?