From Ian Curry at frog design: Twitter: The Missing Messenger
He makes the connection between Twitter and Tumblelogs too. But there’s two bits in his post that I especially like.
It’s
basically blogging reduced to what the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin
called “the phatic function.†Like saying “what’s up?†as you pass
someone in the hall when you have no intention of finding out what is
actually up, the phatic function is communication simply to indicate
that communication can occur.
And:
Or is it, as one of my co-workers pithily put forth, merely “Dodgeball for people who don’t go out”.
Or is it both ;-)