I spend too much time reading blogs.
Particularly, today, I have been reading about Twitter.  I think it's well on its way to implosion now, so any comments I have to say about it are moot.  I have a longer post saved as a draft, which I'll abandon.
The
 gist: Web 2.0 communication can reach a level of ridiculous overload.  I
 don't think there is a need for Twitter.  I don't think it has uses for
 libraries (maybe the embedding of chat reference status into the 
library homepage...but that's a service that is better handled by 
another sort of system, not the Twitter methodology).  It might be nice 
for some people seeking to update others on their status; in some 
situations it might be useful (loud, web-like congregations such as SXSW
 or perhaps academic conferences might be testbeds) but I can't see myself using it.
And I'm more than a month behind the times in responding to it.
 
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