This comic from Hugh MacLeod has been making the rounds since yesterday. It’s very telling because it accurately portrays the movement of communication amongst techies on the internet away from blogging and towards the Twitter microblogging microcosm. I’ve seen it myself. If you look back at my archives for February and March, and especially April, you can see how my blogging has gradually decreased in quantity AND quality. I’ve been Twittering a lot lately. There are a lot of conversations occurring on the system, and some of them are very interesting. The problem is, there is a lot of meaningless drivel there, and it takes time and patience to sift through the pointlessness to find the valuable content. It certainly distracts from other, more sensible ambitions. It’s taken me about a month to come to terms with that reality.

I’m not quite ready to delete the account just yet, but I’m definitely not going to be paying as much attention to it as I have been. My biggest concern is that none of my true friends and family are on Twitter. So when I post and read tweets, I’m essentially communicating with interesting strangers; whereas when I blog, I get to communicate with the people I know and care about on a personal level. I think that’s where my focus should be.

So, yeah. I’m back.