There’s an article in this weekend’s New York Times about abandoned blogs. This happens when the author gets busy, bored or moves onto another form of press release. I’ve followed some blogs that have had a formal “Cya l8r!” entry, some have had detailed explanations for the reason they’re shutting them down and others have been simply set adrift. That’s all fine, ain’t nobadi mad at ya.

I’m waiting for this to happen in the Twitter world, too. Everybody’s all gaga over getting a Twitter account, and drooling to find out how they can make money from it. Chill, people, it’s not a gold mine. Some have taken to Twitter as an easy form of (the original) status update or quasi-press release. Others have signed up and nary posted a tweet. Or rapid-fire tweets within the first week of signing up and then nothing for months. To each their own.

Me, I’m doing both and have been doing both. I don’t see the tweet as a replacement for the blog or vice versa. A blog entry of “On the beach now. Can I get some WiFi out here please?!” doesn’t make sense, but as a tweet it does. And there’s no way that I could sum up this entry in 140 characters. But I’ll tweet a link to this post and they work in tandem.

That said, today is my three-year blogging anniversary. At this address at least. I have some archives from ten years ago when I was posting a journal on OpenDiary.com (before it was called “blogging”) and a secret Blogger site that I used for a few months in ’05 but it’s really too dark to share any of that info.

Here are previous June 07 posts:

2008
2007
2006