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• 08 Apr 09
  

  Gabriela Grosseck

  twitter microblogging blog education socialmedia

• 19 Mar 09
  

  Mike Poluk

  blogging twitter socialmedia social_networking education #expbound

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  Its the minutiae and banter

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• 18 Mar 09
  

  TransTracker

  Nancy Baym over at Online Fandom has a great discussion of the differences between Twitter and Blogging. Definitely worth a read!

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  • Twitter isn’t a substitute for blogging.

    • And it should be added that neither should Twitter be merely a rebroadcast of one's blog.
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  • People like Twitterers’ minutia.
  • People — even smart thoughtful ones — actually LIKE the mix of links, random thoughts, and bits of daily life. They LIKE watching the person, not the topic.
  • Twitter is about banter. That banter is the best part.

    • Playing devil's advocate for the moment: Could the rebroadcast of blog posts via Twitter help to create more discussion around a particular post? And where would/should that discussion occur--e.g. as short bursts of banter on Twitter, or longer comments on the blog site? Could/should Twitter drive conversation (that otherwise might not occur) to the blog site; or should it take place on Twitter? And if on Twitter, how might that conversation remain linked in some way to the original blog post?
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  • Twitter is temporal and cumulative. I made this mistake myself; it’s not until some time after you’ve decided to take Twitter seriously and made it part of the ritual of daily life that you really get it. If you check out someone’s feed, you can get a sense of whether they’re interesting to you, but it’s not until you live with someone’s tweets day in and day out that you know whether the rhythms and content of their messages are going to be rewarding or not.

    • Very true. I had the same experience, in particular with a number of military public affairs Twitter accounts. And this is where I learned that using Twitter to merely rebroadcast blog posts (which themselves were often a rebroadcast of press releases) adds no value, misses the point of Twitter, and is actually quite annoying.
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  • Twitter is a great site for language play. The 140 character limit is a fun challenge for wordsmiths, and those who do it well are joys to read. As a genre, insamuch as it is a genre, the language of Twitter is just way more fun than the language of blogs.

    • Again, I totally agree and have noticed as much myself. There are, at times, "arms races" of "wordsmithery," games of one-upsmanship in which the participants try to out-do the others in terms of the snarkiness, etc. of their Tweets (or status updates on Facebook). Again, this is another aspect of Twitter's uniqueness, fun, and value that is missed when people merely use it as a channel for rebroadcasting blog posts or press releases.
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  • Can we just quit judging every new mode of communication that comes along and finding it wanting in comparison to the last one?

    • Judging in the negative, judgemental way? Yes, we should stop. Comparing and contrasting in a constructive way (as Baym has done here) to determine what's the same/different among these technologies, where their strengths/weakenesses are, their unique attributes, values, etc.? We should do more of that.
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  Nancy White

  Nancy Baym reflects on the differences between blogs and Twitter

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• 15 Mar 09
  

  Anne Helmond

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• 13 Mar 09
  

  tori- rio

  "1) Twitter isn’t a substitute for blogging. / 2) People like Twitterers’ minutia / 3) Looking at a Twitter feed or profile isn’t the same as following someone on Twitter. / 4) Twitter is about banter. / 5) Twitter is temporal and cumulative. / 6) Twitter

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  Nancy Friedman

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  L@jost EU project

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  laura malita

  blogging twitter

• 11 Mar 09
  

  Ezequiel Vieira

  In a post that appeared remarkably soon after my last post in which I noted that I am easier to find on Twitter than on Online Fandom these days, Rob Walker of Murketing and Buying In fame, expressed “Nostalgia for Blogs” and lamented:

  twitter RedesSociais microblogging Blogs INteratividade

• 10 Mar 09
  

  Bronwyn Davies

  Good discussion on use of blogs versus Twitter

  WikisnBlogs twitter blog

• 09 Mar 09
  

  Robyn Jay

  twitter blogging functionality L&Tunsw TELT elearning highereducation L&T edtech

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  Andrew Long

  Internet research Nancy Baym discusses the supposed death of blogs thanks to Twitter. Her justifications for using Twitter a good, particularly point 5.

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  TransTracker on 2009-03-18
  And it should be added that neither should Twitter be merely a rebroadcast of one's blog.
• 
  TransTracker on 2009-03-18
  Playing devil's advocate for the moment: Could the rebroadcast of blog posts via Twitter help to create more discussion around a particular post? And where would/should that discussion occur--e.g. as short bursts of banter on Twitter, or longer comments on the blog site? Could/should Twitter drive conversation (that otherwise might not occur) to the blog site; or should it take place on Twitter? And if on Twitter, how might that conversation remain linked in some way to the original blog post?
• 
  TransTracker on 2009-03-18
  Very true. I had the same experience, in particular with a number of military public affairs Twitter accounts. And this is where I learned that using Twitter to merely rebroadcast blog posts (which themselves were often a rebroadcast of press releases) adds no value, misses the point of Twitter, and is actually quite annoying.
• 
  TransTracker on 2009-03-18
  Again, I totally agree and have noticed as much myself. There are, at times, "arms races" of "wordsmithery," games of one-upsmanship in which the participants try to out-do the others in terms of the snarkiness, etc. of their Tweets (or status updates on Facebook). Again, this is another aspect of Twitter's uniqueness, fun, and value that is missed when people merely use it as a channel for rebroadcasting blog posts or press releases.
• 
  TransTracker on 2009-03-18
  Judging in the negative, judgemental way? Yes, we should stop. Comparing and contrasting in a constructive way (as Baym has done here) to determine what's the same/different among these technologies, where their strengths/weakenesses are, their unique attributes, values, etc.? We should do more of that.

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