How Twitter Killed My Blog

Hi, uh, do you come here often?

I feel like a stranger on my own blog. It's been a while since I've devoted some serious time to it. Too long in fact. But it's nobody's fault but my own. Well, maybe Twitter is to blame as well. But more on that later.

I had an interesting conversation with my girlfriend the other night. I was ranting about how this really awesome place (www.bikefurniture.com) that makes furniture out of bike parts is, in my opinion, making a huge mistake by not listing prices on their website. I went on and on about how you need to make it as easy as possible for someone to buy your stuff and if you don't list a price I'll assume I can't afford it, whether that's actually true or not. Once I composed myself she turned to me and said "What am I supposed to do about it? Why don't you blog it or tell the company so someone who cares can actually do something about it."

And that's when I realized I needed to return to blogging. (ps- that bike furniture is AWESOME, but I'm not going to email you to find out the price. If you'd like me to buy it I need to be able to do so in as simple a way as possible.)

Aside from this revealation I also realized that I had fewer "urges" to blog. I attribute this to my increasing use of Twitter. I also wonder if other bloggers feel the same? It's so easy to bust out a few quick tweets that many of my thoughts, rants and ramblings get channeled there as opposed to on here. As I logged in to write this post I realized that I can compose a whole tweet in about the time it takes me to log into Blogger. In an age where instant communication is becoming more instant everyday I see this as a long term issue that blogging service may need to address. Obviously micro-blogging won't kill macro-blogging(?) but it could pour some water on the fire.

So I guess that's my long way of saying, "I'm back." Thanks for listening.