twitter vs identi.ca

[Ralph A. Mack]

One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces 
non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling live 
conversation rather than the lecture-followed-by-q&a mode characteristic 
of blogs and most email.

I've been playing with the notion of writing a plugin for Firefox or 
Chrome that tracks the size of emails I'm writing in tweets (SMS 
160-character units) and slowly changes my screen background from white 
via various shades of pink and salmon to a very angry shade of red as 
the tweet-count increases, in order to curb my habit of putting every 
thought I have on a topic into every communication. :)

I'm bracing myself to encounter widespread encouragement from those who 
have read my prior posts to this list or have the misfortune of being in 
my address book.  ;)

Ralph