Yep. Still here. You people are just too smart for me to keep up sometimes. I've got hundreds of tabs open on three different browsers on at least 2 different computers. I'm synching bookmarks and open tabs, I'm sending myself text files with links in them that I haven't gotten to yet, I'm trying to get three different, very cool projects off the ground at work, I'm prepping for DevLearn 2010...phew...now I'm tired again.
So all that is just preface to say that yes, still here and I really do have to get disciplined again about blogging. It really is a different dynamic than twitter and there is something much more cathartic and helpful at aligning the big thoughts in the action of blogging than the 140 character medium (funny - remember when blogging was criticized because it wasn't 'long form'?)
So enough whining - let's get back to some writing and deep diving.
Have missed your blogging, Mark. Twitter's fine for quick hits, but you excel at thoughtful exposition, and that takes more than 140 characters. No pressure, though :-)
Posted by: Doug Nelson | October 01, 2010 at 01:40 AM
My blogging is less but my online chatter is more. I got into the lifestreaming bit for a while, but now I think of the world as my typewriter. I'll write comments like this, Flickr captions, any of my blogs, my wiki, my posterous, twitter, and others. (Holy shit, two deer just walked within five feet of where I'm writing this.)
More and more, I feel like the protagonist in Neuromancer. Me and my deck, jacking into cyberspace and then back out again. It matters not where I write, for the good stuff endures and the fluff floats by.
Posted by: Jay Cross | September 25, 2010 at 01:15 AM
I've never had a problem with blogging not being long form, myself...
I have to say, though, that even in the lackadaisical manner in which I'm participating in the PLENK2010 online course, I've written many more blog comments recently.
As you say, it's a different dynamic from Twitter. In fact, I had a conversation in three venues just the other day: it started as a few direct messages on Twitter, segued to the chat widget on my blog (no 140-character limit), and then to a first-time Skype conversation.
Both of us saw each step as just good sense, the way an email exchange at work might turn into a phone call that turns into let's grab lunch now.
(All this to say, somebody noticed.)
Posted by: Dave Ferguson | September 23, 2010 at 07:25 AM