{"id":585,"date":"2008-04-11T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-04-11T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:48:29","slug":"twittering-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/twittering-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittering away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/004480.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/hugh-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/004480.html\">This comic<\/a> from Hugh MacLeod has been making the rounds since yesterday. It&#8217;s very telling because it accurately portrays the movement of communication amongst techies on the internet away from blogging and towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> microblogging microcosm. I&#8217;ve seen it myself. If you look back at my archives for <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2008\/02\/\">February<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2008\/03\/\">March<\/a>, and especially April, you can see how my blogging has gradually decreased in quantity AND quality. I&#8217;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&#8217;s taken me about a month to come to terms with that reality.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite ready to delete the account just yet, but I&#8217;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&#8217;m essentially communicating with interesting <em>strangers<\/em>; whereas when I blog, I get to communicate with the people I know and care about on a personal level. I think that&#8217;s where my focus should be.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. I&#8217;m back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comic from Hugh MacLeod has been making the rounds since yesterday. It&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen it myself. If you look back at my archives for February and March, and especially April, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[322,465],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-blogging","tag-twitter","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}