Tim Murtaugh

Over past couple of years I’ve tried most of the new methods of communication on the web. I had stopped blogging, but I started a Tumblr blog, and kept at it for a little while, thanks to Tumblr’s interface and ability to make pushing content onto the web just about as easy as it can be.

Then Twitter came along, and (while I initially resisted it) once I started I all but stopped any other kind of blogging. Twitter is great for simple thoughts, quick links, and staying in touch with your circle of friends. It’s also, thanks to one of any number of mobile apps, dead simple to both consume and create Twitter content while on the go.

(As an aside, I have found that I usually re-assess the list of people I follow every few months, and the people I don’t know personally are usually the first ones to go; what they’re writing about is usually uninteresting to me, even if topically you’d think it would be.)

Now I’m trying full-on blogging again, mainly because I need to engage my brain a little more significantly. I think that while Twitter is great, it doesn’t inspire any thoughts or actions that are actually constructive to me. It’s like watching TV — it’s passively consumed and almost as passively created by me.

Taking the time to write, even if I’m not thinking about what I’m writing ahead of time (which clearly I’m not), engages me on a different level, and I think, for me, it will provide benefits beyond what you’re seeing on this page.