Be a Twit

I've taken to Tweeting a fair bit of late, and so have some 6 million others. The Globe is devoting a fair bit of intellectual capital to the subject at the moment to try and make sense of it for us. I was particularly intrigued by Clive Thompson's words (of Shift and Wired Magazine fame): “Each little update – each individual bit of social information – is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane,” says new-media expert Clive Thompson. “But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends' and family members' lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting.” He calls this experience “ambient awareness” – an invisible dimension floating over everyday life, like a type of ESP.
So, me telling you what I had for supper isn't interesting, but over time I'm painting a picture of my life for you...