Twitter

At last the long promised follow-up to the previous Twitter post. For whatever reason that blog entry has garnered a great deal of interest, so rather than respond individually in comments to those who posted here and elsewhere I thought I would group my thoughts together in one place.
My General Philosophy
Let me start by saying …..

I am thinking about putting together a proposal to present at the MLA on microblogging (don’t want to limit it to just Twitter). If anyone is interested send me an email dave [at] outsidethetext [dot] com. In order to have enough time to complete the polished proposal for submission to the MLA by April 1st …..

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way …..