I would have written a shorter blog entry…
Blaise Pascal famously started a letter stating, “I would have written a shorter letter but I didn’t have time.” Its often easier to make things hard, complex or time intensive than to achieve the short and simple version.
If you would have asked me three months ago what I thought of twitter I would have described it as yet another sign of the collapse of civilization, akin to necktie-less men and poor punctuation. I would have told these kids to get off my lawn.
I’m eating (er, tweeting) my words. If used properly, twitter is an excellent antidote to the verbal diarrhea of weblog (present company included) and article writing. It isn’t a replacement, but the simplicity and 140 character constraint does wonders to focus an idea. Pascal would have liked it.