Relaxed Parents

There are people who take twitter extremely seriously. Then there’s most of the other people on it.

Twitter, for the uninitiated, is basically micro-blogging (on steroids) and a new lease of life for TinyUrl. People documenting their lives sound bite by sound bite, 140 characters at a time. Definitely brings out the stalker in one. You can twitter by text, by web or to the side of your blog. Looking for redmedicine will tell you that I’ve been working, drinking tea and watching the snow. What a productive day! (I also set up a few trial sites at work on Google Analytics but that’s seriously off-topic for me…).

Anyway, the nice thing (and the terrible thing) about twitter is its ferocious commitment to democratic communication in its most granular form (not the same as the lowest common denominator, necessarily). It’s like sitting on a street corner watching the passers-by in a particularly busy, demographically varied shopping centre at about 5:35 pm. Finding a use for it at work is a little more challenging, though there are proponents.
Do I have any friends of my own on twitter? No. I just enjoy the passing scene.

(“I’m not a fanatic but I like to watch TV every now and then…”)