> The difference could be the time it takes to compose. A blog is like a > book report, term paper or official "position" on something, whereas a > twit(ter) is like an offhand comment. You don't have to think about the > second one, but you want to make a strong point (about fly larva, in my > case) in the first one.
I find this fascinating, because way back when, in the late 90s/early 2000s, I saw my blog as my "quick" way of getting a thought out into the world. This was compared to writing an "article" for my site, which I would carefully edit and revise to be as well-written as possible. Now we've gone one step further, to needing a quick version of a blog post. Amazing! As a bit of a side note, it seems to me that the reason blogs became popular was because they were a ready-made content management system. People who didn't know a lot about HTML could get a pretty good looking site up quickly, and without the need to crunch code on a daily basis. If free, easy-to-use, *non-chronological* content management systems had existed at the same time blogs became popular, would people really have latched on to blogs as much as they did? I admit that some information out there is genuinely timely, and loses freshness after a few days -- it makes sense for that content to be in blog format. That said, it seems like a lot of really great content gets missed these days because it's been pushed down to the second page of a blog. If the primary means of access of this content was by topic, perhaps we'd serendipitously find content we're interested in more readily. Am I way out in left field with this? Meredith ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Meredith Noble Information Architect, Usability Matters Inc. 416-598-7770, ext. 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
