So I'm back in the land of Lincoln and Wild Rod's Senate Seat Emporium
("The lowest price for all your legislative needs") this week and next for
Christmas Vacation. I'm really enjoying hanging out with friends and family
that I rarely get to see these days, relaxing in the exotic subzero
weather, and desperately looking forward to moving back.
One thing that hits me every time I travel is that my blog tends to suffer because my posts are generally pretty long, which causes me to spend time researching, proofreading, etc, etc.
Twitter is kind of nice for the shorter thoughts, but only for ones that can be contained in a single sentence. It doesn't work well for something like this post, for example, which requires several sentences to capture. It kills me every time I have to chop a thought in half to fit it into that stupid 140 character limit.
So I've decided to start segregating my thoughts and fitting them to the appropriate mediums. Single-sentence thoughts ("United Airlines deserves a quick and horrible death") go to Twitter, slightly longer thoughts (like this one) and videos go to my blog, longer ones that have typically gone to my blog and take a few hours to put together (like Predictions for 2009) will be posted as essays, and thoughts that take more than a couple of pages to express will go into books.
In other words, thoughts of varying complexity should probably go to different channels.
This seems like the kind of problem that should already have a readily available solution, but the recent introduction of Twitter and micro-blogging have proved that we really haven't figured it out yet.
