http://www.topofthemountains.net/2008/05/18/tweety-bird/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2008/05/18/tweety-bird/#comment-74855 Mon, 19 May 2008 13:53:42 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2008/05/18/tweety-bird/#comment-74855 One other thing: I realized this morning that in one way Twitter is a rather nice personal history tool. I don't know if journal-writing is on the decline -- maybe it is, maybe it isn't -- but I think it's a very good thing that people <i>are</i> blogging and (in increasing numbers) tweeting, because at least they're leaving some record behind of their existence. So Twitter is a way of doing family history. Fancy that. :P One other thing: I realized this morning that in one way Twitter is a rather nice personal history tool. I don’t know if journal-writing is on the decline — maybe it is, maybe it isn’t — but I think it’s a very good thing that people are blogging and (in increasing numbers) tweeting, because at least they’re leaving some record behind of their existence. So Twitter is a way of doing family history. Fancy that. :P

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