This is a very interesting article and I have found that it is true in my case as well. I am adding it here for conversation. And actually, are we not all finding that blogging is becoming the next print media and that twittering and facebooking is quickly taking bloggins place for those of us not totally devoted to the written word world?
Thoughts…
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The way we communicate is changing at a breakneck pace. And don’t expect it to slow down.
I’m not blogging as much as I used to. Part of it probably has to do with the job – it’s just tough to find the time. (Despite what J.J. Cale might tell you, it’s not easy to let it all hang out after midnight.) But I think a bigger reason simply might be that I have literally been Facebooking and Twittering (some say frittering) all my content away! I get a thought, I meet someone interesting, I go somewhere cool, and then snap crackle pop, I put it up. Crazy right? But more than that, what are the implications? As Joni Mitchell might say: “Well something’s lost, but something’s gained.”
Of course it’s more complicated than that. First this whole deal has been going on for ages (well for nearly 12 months at least.) Go back to “Is Google Making us Stupid” (The Atlantic July/August 2008.) What are the implications of more short bits of information and shorter attention spans?