I know it hasn’t caught on yet in the UK, well not amongst the folks I know here, but all my friends in New York use Twitter and I really like it. There’s something almost poetic in trying to fit what I’m doing right now into 160 characters, something my geeky/creative brain thinks of as a challenge. Now I’ve just heard from Russell Davies about Dawdler, a kind of piss take on Twitter that asks us to send what we doing generally on a postcard to their office on Beak Street, London W1. So, of course, I had to grab one of the multitude of empty postcards that I’ve got lying around my house and fill one in. I’ll put it through my franking machine at work today and send it off, then wait and see what happens.
Like alot of stuff on the web I can never work out if there’s ultimately a commercial angle to sites like Dawdler or just a bit of fun for the people involved. Either way, it makes a change actually writing something down on paper and posting it and then watching it appear on the web later. We’re so used to everything being so immediate that the process of waiting seems old fashioned. I wonder if in a few years time my kids will be saying to me, ‘Waiting? What’s that?’ like they do now about LPs or electric typewriters.
