MdlEast Cnflct: Twitterized

Rachel explains ...

I've grown to enjoy what Yammer can do for some forms of inter-office communication, so I'm not one to entirely knock the capability of Twitter to serve a useful purpose in terms of broader communication.

Still ... I'm not a fan of Twitter. Yet.

I do plug in a few TwitteRSSes into Google Reader, though. So maybe it's a matter of time. For now, I'm just torn between seeing it as the CB Radio of the internet (ie - short term fad) or being merely a niche form of communication (think IMing compared to phone calls).

What I don't see now and take some issue with is the description of Twittering as "micro-blogging." And for much the same reason that Maddow harps on. Got a thought? Organize it a little. There's a time and place for immediate, insanely-short-form writing. But I don't see the organizational benefits anywhere in Twitter for that.

SIDENOTE: Of tangential interest to this is this good read in the NYT on the hidden/unaccounted-for costs of text messaging. First rule of business is that if there's any black box that the beancounters aren't allowed to look at ... there's probably something worth looking at.