By John Ballard
Which is more habit-forming, blogs or tweets?
Think of the warnings on tobacco products.
Blogs are totally 2009. They�ve gotten so wordy. For bloggers, it�s just scribble, scribble, scribble; for the rest of us, it�s just read, read, read. Sometimes blog posts go on for 200 or even 300 words. Imagine what you might be missing while you�re slogging through all that blah-blah. Worse, on a blog there�s a huge lag time�minutes often!�from the moment the blogger writes a post to the moment the reader can read it.The temptation to edit oneself, to clarify and revise, to entertain second thoughts of any form, is simply too great for a modern journalist to risk it. Nobody these days wants to know what a journalist thought three minutes ago. A tweet is a blurt. We want to know what a journalist is thinking right now, this second.
And he better not be thinking too much: no tweet can be longer than 140 characters...
I don't even want to know what *I* was thinking three minutes ago, assuming I could remember that far back. :-)
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