May
08
Posted on 05-08-2008 at 10:15am
Filed Under (Internet) by Newscoma on 05-08-2008

From former Nashvillian Brittney Gilbert.

Then: “Blogging will be the death of legitimate, long-form journalism.”

Now: “Twitter will be the death of legitimate, long-form blogging.”

Then: “I would never have a blog.”

Now: “I would never have a Twitter.”

She’s right.

Twitter is interesting to me. I’ve seen more news broken on Twitter that sometimes takes up to an hour to make it to mainstream news sites.

The Uncle also weighs in.

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Comments

brittney on 8 May, 2008 at 12:08 pm #

Thanks for the link, Ms. Coma!


Nashveggie on 8 May, 2008 at 2:23 pm #

I still see Twitter as a watered-down IRC.


brittney on 8 May, 2008 at 2:24 pm #

Twitter, like a blog or a notebook or drunken texting, is what you make of it.


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