Reporting what I'm doing - now!
Over the past year I've found two opportunities to refer to Twitter,
a tool that seemed to be little more than a fly-by-night fad but has turned out
to be a tool that many people love to use, and for which they continue to find
novel and worthwhile uses. Twitter allows us to tell the world, or simply a group
of friends who subscribe to our feed, in 140 characters or less, precisely what's
we're doing now.
This has become a surprisingly popular tool that has spearheaded the concept of
microblogging which two years ago was hardly a recognized term, and has now become
a trend. But for me, Twitter and Bell's MyLifeBits, though perhaps fundamentally
different in intent, and in scope, both suffer from the same problem. By focusing
on saving, and/or reporting on what we're doing, our experience becomes the saving
or the reporting themselves, without room for actual reflection.
Go to: A pre-digital precursor, or
Go to: Extreme remembering, or
Go to: The shoebox advantage.