5. Larger question I face (& we all face) is whether to keep embracing new forms or try and be counter-cultural, working in older forms
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6. Blogging already feels like an archaic form, like the epistolary novel.
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9. As McLuhan & Ong has taught us, orality is natural. We are hard-wired (most of us) to talk as toddlers. Writing is much more artificial
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10. So tweeting is a form of writing that actually feels like talking, which opens us discussion for people who are not writers by habit.
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11. There is a weird intimacy to twitter, rooted in its conversational nature. People open themselves up in ways they wouldn't elsewhere.
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12. Certainly there are people I only "know" through twitter who feel like friends. Not sure what to do with that, but it's there.
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13. An example: I (and others) were sad when Ta-Nehisi Coates left twitter. We still read his essays & can email him, but that's different.
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@DawsonOakes Yes, absolutely.
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