Is Twitter killing the Blog Star?
Sunday, November 09th, 2008 | 23:31
I must admit that more recently I have felt on occasion that blogging was so five minutes ago – but then my daughter comes to mind and the fact that she almost refuses to use e-mail because it is so cumbersome compared to a quick SMS, and I think that while it would be great to be forced to limit oneself to 140 characters in many situations, there are cases where I would like to digress, add a photo, go on a rant. So it may be as Wired put it:
The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge.
I still don’t want to do without the format, however. Read Blogging Is Dead, or So They Say for more on the subject.
Monday, 10. November 2008
If you want to try it out, Matthew Bennett has a list of “Language Lovers on Twitter” on his blog. Good place to start.
Monday, 10. November 2008
And this just in:
http://twitter.com/Dolmetschen_LE
as well as Gabi Zöttls http://twitter.com/uebersetzer.
Thursday, 13. November 2008
Ms. Holmes glaubt zu wissen, wer ihr neuer Twitter-Follower ist.
Thursday, 13. November 2008
Dahin sind also die ganzen bloggenden Übersetzer verschwunden…
Friday, 14. November 2008
Twitter is so moronic. I have always stayed away from instant messaging, because it was a pain, and Twitter is simply the latest incarnation of IM. Don’t worry: blogging is not going anywhere, and if you do right, you can actually be better, and more widely read, than some of the mainstream media (my own political pundit site and Web Column gets more hits and readers than some of the established media — just the other day, I had approx. 1,000 unique readers on my site at the same time!).
Twitter is for twits (no offence to anyone).