Dr Kronos and his ramblings

I feel that the twitter experiment is coming to an end for me. It’s not the fault of the twitter technology itself; It is the general concept that has ended up losing me. I already suffer from information overload with RSS and web comics, but with twitter I found what I was getting was general information that was pretty fleeting at best.

So it appears I will be uninstalling tweetdeck (which in and of itself was a very good program) and saying sayonara to my twitter account.

May next step may well be to start managing those other information overloaders, email and RSS.

Bred at first, as many physical diseases are, in the wickedness of men, and then disseminated in their ignorance, these epidemics, after a period, get communicated to many sufferers who are neither ignorant nor wicked.

Charles Dickens – Little Dorrit, Book Two, Chapter XIII

Economic crisis, swine flu pandemic (OK, H1N1 Influenza A), seems a perfect quote for any of these man made problems.

Yuck … just read an article over at ConsumerFocus about the crappy state of UK copyrght laws. Pretty depressing reading but basically our copyright laws are so out of date that fair use does not really apply in the UK.

The frustrating thing is I do not know how I can help in anyway.

Not really sure about twitter. Been playing with it for about two weeks now and can’t say it’s really impressed upon me how amazing it is. I have tried to shake things up, moved to tweetdeck on my Mac.

But at the end, it just seems twitter is full of just that, twitter. Yes, there are some good twitterers. Stephen Fry updates with some excellent news from his travels. Jon Favreau, not too many updates but he does update with pictures of cool props he has at home and his updates talk about Iron Man 2.

Yet twitter seems at best to be about sound bites. Blogs may be a lot of work for people to write, however it allows the reader a greater experience. And how do people follow hundreds, if not thousands of other twitterers ? I only follow about 20 people and get overloaded with updates. I will keep tweetdeck going, but frankly I am not sure I have the time to keep spending on twitter.

An interesting question as I resume blogging.

I have started by upgrading Word Press. Still don’t have OpenID working though. Also I should think about getting a favicon setup.