Worth reading

There is a lot of discussion and speculation about contemporary society's apparent addiction to recording every aspect of it's waking hour, whether it be in 140-character grabs, via cameras on hats, in blogs or collages of images uploaded onto flickr.com etc.

In an article in USA Today on 15 April The popularity of Twitter has some relationships in a twist, the author suggested that we are forgetting how to interact personally, choosing instead to present ourselves via abbreviated virtual packages. She also described a few absurd situations, such as one man's experience in which his dinner date complained about the chicken via Twitter, not bothering to tell him personally, then proceeded to have a heated exchange with her ex-husband via SMS. A second date did not eventuate.

I spent this morning sitting in a conference about Museums and the Web in Indianapolis and watched with a Twitterfall with interest, as contributors tweeted (sometimes inanely) about attending the conference. I know, I know, the tweeting was not really intended for the people in the room, but it was a bit distracting and detracted from the really interesting stuff the plenary speaker had to share.

Not sure, unless you are a great thinker or famous or newsworthy person, how interesting all these tweets can be.

April 14, 2009 | Posted in Writing