Is there anybody out there?

Yet another update from beyond.

If you’re still reading here, know that I’m more active on Twitter/Facebook now. Twitter (ignoring @’s and RT’s) feeds Facebook status. I respond to replies on both.

I stopped paying for my LiveJournal account. Made sense as I wasn’t posting directly there any longer. If you see this on LJ, you’re seeing it as an RSS feed from my blog.

I resisted for a long time the idea of putting out ideas in 140 characters. It seemed rather odd that information of value could be conveyed in such a short manner. I’m finding trying to construct information in as tight a bundle as possible but still make it useful is good for brain. It helps in my job which requires I break down something complex – to someone who doesn’t understand – into a couple of sentences they can take back to their respective people.

These short messages though are very helpful. Time is not as available as it used to be. But more importantly, I think I actually really understand a bit more about why it helps to be that quick. If you’ve read my writings since I first started on LiveJournal in 2004 you’ll remember I wrote “News Bits” every few days. It was just links and a comment. I’d usually do four or five in a day. These were really just one liners to things I thought were interesting but not worth the time for a full entry. One liner + link = tweet.

I couldn’t have explained all this in 140 characters.