Finally, a way to communicate - in an excessively verbose way - every minute happening of my existence that will be seen by the 30 or so hapless fools who have chosen to 'follow' me on Twatter, or Twitter or whatever.
The attention span is shrinking. I point everyone I can to 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman which is a fantastic slim volume that catalogues the shrinking of our collective attention spans as a race and led to the trivialisation of information in our discourse.
The internet has done some to breath some life back into literacy which television has long been doing its damnedest to kill off, but with the mediums like Twitter the blasts of information are often too short to really be meaningful and instead become quite shallow.
It is therefore quite refreshing to see something like 'woofer' in which we are forced to sit down and actually compose something resembling thoughts before we unleash a salvo that will be seen and heard by our contacts who 'follow' us.
Of course there is just cut-and-paste which is probably what most folks do. But as I only have about 300 characters left before I've crossed the threshold, I'm committed to finishing my woof 'the honest way.'
That's right. No pasted Charles Dickens or Wikipedia entries HERE. This is all bonafide original content which is perhaps why it has been so dull to read. So very sorry about that people.
The attention span is shrinking. I point everyone I can to 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman which is a fantastic slim volume that catalogues the shrinking of our collective attention spans as a race and led to the trivialisation of information in our discourse.
The internet has done some to breath some life back into literacy which television has long been doing its damnedest to kill off, but with the mediums like Twitter the blasts of information are often too short to really be meaningful and instead become quite shallow.
It is therefore quite refreshing to see something like 'woofer' in which we are forced to sit down and actually compose something resembling thoughts before we unleash a salvo that will be seen and heard by our contacts who 'follow' us.
Of course there is just cut-and-paste which is probably what most folks do. But as I only have about 300 characters left before I've crossed the threshold, I'm committed to finishing my woof 'the honest way.'
That's right. No pasted Charles Dickens or Wikipedia entries HERE. This is all bonafide original content which is perhaps why it has been so dull to read. So very sorry about that people.
