More articles and less microblogging will be the goal in the remainder of this year. Microblogging has the shelf life of a pierced apple; it's full of typos and not always polished, perhaps more like a chalkboard at times. The key thing about people in microblogging sites: 1) Often covering topics they do not specialise in. 2) No fact-checking. 3) Framing things succinctly for attention rather than accuracy.

"...with social control media becoming all about surveillance and provocation it's rather clear that microblogging outlived its usefulness."Here's a good example from earlier today. It's a very good one from Dr. Birgit Clark, one of the better former writers of IP Kat. A German tabloid was described as Germany's leading paper and it was retweeted widely despite this falsehood. Facts don't seem to matter, only emotions.

In less than a week from now (maybe next weekend) I will have posted my 666,666th tweet. I am going to slow down a bit and instead spend more time blogging, not microblogging; with social control media becoming all about surveillance and provocation it's rather clear that microblogging outlived its usefulness. ⬆