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I dont care that we all think its something reserved for 16 year old girls... blogging really is sweet.

I think you've confused blogging with Myspace.

nope, but clogging is cool. especially with wooden shoes.
pisses off the down stairs neighbors.

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No, he means blogging.

But blogging is so 2004. Twitter is where it's at now. Who has the time to write a full paragraph about what they ate for lunch today.

thats why you do BOTH... but twitter is where you put all your useless stuff that noone actually cares to read... your blog is where you put your real musings

I have to go with Chuckit on this, myspace is for the dazed youth masses.

Flogging is something I can get into.

You are so olde school.

Yea. Ye olde Schoole.

There is no in schoole, foole.

Peter O'Toole.

Fixed.

Glogging is coole?

Blogging is like reading the National Enquirer. Entertaining for sure, but you feel icky after reading most of it.

Back in the day I used to think that's what blogging was for also. There are good blogs and bad ones. There are also some really stupid ones where people go off on a rant about crap without doing any real research.

Twitter's just random thoughts. People say that if it takes more than 140 characters to get out what you want to say, it's a blog post.

However, Twitter has become the place for people to start controversies lately.

Twitter is definitely picking up steam, but there's no way I'm letting myself get sucked into a 24/7 chat room, which is what it becomes when you follow too many people.

Maybe its my age, or my apathy but I really don't care about either. If I have anything to say, in depth or shallow, I usually say it face to face, or even in an email,

Is every thought that comes into your head directed exclusively at one specific person?

I thought of the same response but you can email multiple people.

What's great about Twitter is that as long as people are using it, you can get a sort of "stream of consciousness" from people on the 'net. That's how I like to describe it. You find a lot of interesting people too.

Admittedly, I have not spent much time on Twitter, but I have never been able to understand what anyone is writing about due to a lack of context.

At least a personal blog allows enough space to give that context. I don't care what you had for lunch, but you were able to explain why you wrote about it.

I think the question still stands. I feel pretty sure that a lot of people have thoughts without a particular recipient or even a finite set of recipients in mind. This is where the entire publishing industry comes from. You could just as well argue that magazines should be converted to personal email.

I mean, I can get that some people don't have the time or inclination to write anything of general interest. That's fine. I'm just trying to highlight the difference between writing for a general audience and writing for specific people.