If it’s a shifting of culture then it’s a terrible shift. The world needs writers and twitterers to express complex thoughts and dynamic ones. The value of Twitter is that, when taken in aggregate, it shows the waves of our internet society. People moan and people laugh, and all that is reflected in the constant stream of twitters. One of my last twitters today was that one could write a whole book about today’s connected society based in following twitters and I really believe that. That said, there is room, much room still for blogging, aka publishing longer-complete thoughts. These are the pieces of text that have an influence, that shift societies and lead to rebellions, not twitters. Twitters work well in conjunction to that because they help with the generation and spreading of ideas through short posts and twitterfeeds(.com). But they do not, should not, replace the complexity of thought. And may I suggest that if you have nothing to blog it’s to do with that you have nothing to say, something which happens to every blogger once in a while. Don’t blame Twitter, just work towards regaining your creativity, be it from life or twitter-life. Life is a journey and focussing on every rock helps nothing and no-one.

-Vincent van Wylick on http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/09/05/twitters-ruining-my-blogging/