Shelley Powers:

Weblogging, where no one really knows how many people are following you, most people don’t care, we can actually communicate complete thoughts, and do what we want with our URLs. Twitter is like haikus, an interesting application of extreme limits that inspires creativity and a different way of thinking. Entirely useful, fascinating pursuit, good luck to you all. Haikus have their strong points, but let’s face it even the best haikus don’t come close to telling the same kind of story as a novel, or even a ballad. Even a great long string of haikus wouldn’t.

The same applies to blogging – it allows more than a single thought at a time and lets you make connections and explain that thought in more detail. A lot of people have effectively stopped blogging because they’re now just twittering instead. I think that’s a great shame – instead of taking the time to properly think through the issue and blog, they twitter in an instant and move on. The time I spend blogging isn’t for you the reader, it’s for me. It forces me to think through the issue some more and make strong connections between the individual thoughts. None of that would happen if I just blurted the thought out in 140 characters.