Twitter

A problem I have long faced is that my best comments come in the randomness of daily life, but almost never a time that is convenient to blog.  This leads to the blog falling into disrepair, and then the inertia of idleness carries me to continued avoidance of posting.

I thought I'd found the answer when I realized I could email blog posts to the blog directly, or send a picture from my phone straight to the blog.  That excitement dissipated when I realized both my blackberry and cell phone put extraneous, self-promoting nonsense at the end of my posts, and I either have to live with it or go in and clean it up later.

And then along came Twitter, my new obsession.  The wife's been using it for a bit and then a friend was in town over the weekend who used it, and so I felt compelled to sign up.

How lovely and satisfying it is to throw out random comments into the void for people to see.  I get the satisfaction of sharing in my moment of zaniness or dullness and someone, maybe, will quietly appreciate having shared in that moment with me.

Now, to keep the blog lively, I've added a Twitterings box to the sidebar, allowing for always-new content on the website.  This remedies two problems: 1) the disrepairedness of the blog and 2) becomes a compromise to the stubborn buggers whom I call friends that won't join Twitter but may still have an interest in what I'm saying (even if I can't find out what they are doing).

But if you do want to sign up for Twitter, do it!  

(Unless you're my parents because that's just weird.)