In order to become smarter as a civilization we need to be more open to ideas and have more of them but at the same time be much more critical and sceptical of all the ideas we are exposed to.

IOW we need to do as you suggest and become more practiced at filtering out the nonsense and finding the gold.

Great post.

No – and I wasn’t advocating abandoning all blogging in favour of just Tweeting or linklogging (my recent absence from blogging notwithstanding)- just that a lot of content I used to push onto the blog that is now better suited to those other media. Blog posts still have a very important role to play for longer and more drawn out thinking, of course.

Is it really possible to compose a Tweet which conveys as much information and opinion, as this whole blog posting does ?

I also wonder if the reduction to 140 characters doesn’t create the illusion of community and communication, replacing the real thing. Let’s face it, my ‘followers’ aren’t really following me at all. Nine out of ten times, I’m tweeting into the void.

I don’t doubt that something real is going on here and something valuable being born. But I can’t help but feel there’s a price. Just haven’t figured out what it is and how costly.

Twitter is the SMS of Web 2.0. It’s clear people really want to talk and listen to each other more than strategists seem to understand. Makes me laugh.