The other day, I clicked on a link to one of my favourite blogs: thejinius.com. Lo-and-behold, the author had stopped blogging.
So I went and checked startingoverat24.blogspot.com. Again, the number of posts had dropped to 1 since I last checked a month ago. Similar stories exist for corporate casual and a myriad of other blogs I read as well. What's going on? Was this some kind of blog eating disease that was spreading throughout the internet. Could this be the new epidemic after the swine-flu?
I searched and searched and I think I've found the answer.
And it's called...
Twitter.
If you look back through all of documented time, it seems that we are more intrigued by whatever we've just created. Around the birth of language and writing, people poured their hearts out and wrote spectacular novels. Novels evolved to comics. Comics evolved to web comics and blogs. And now blogs have evolved to 90 character information crack junkie hits that we now know as tweets.
I ask this: when did we all become such ADHD ridden bunch of tech-savvy info junkies?
Maybe my disdain comes from knowing that I, myself can't be bothered sitting in front of a computer for 30 mins to write a decent blog post (which in itself is quite far down the evolutionary chain of writing).
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