twitter.com/soundblog

february 16, 2010.

In the soundblog's side bar, way down below, there has always been a spot for two short lists, in which I gathered links to some of the things that I recently read, saw or heard; most of them directly related to subjects I write about here myself. Sort of a faint echo of the primordial 'link-log' function of 'blogs', quoi, before the blog-split turned some of them into online epics trying to outgrow the size of a A la recherche, while others settled in a flow of haiku-sized half-hourly yells and status updates.

I do know that a decent part of you did use these lists, as I saw you leaving the soundblog by clicking on one of these links ... But these 'read online'- and 'heard/seen online'-links were there as much for me. As a way to hang on to some of the things that otherwise would too quickly pass and disappear in the massive flow of daily information.

The idea, of course, is useful. But it did not work the way that it should.
It didn't work for me, because I kept no history of the lists, that would make them into a kind of collection of bookmarks that I might use as a reference.
And therefore it also did not work for you: because of the lack of this 'history' function, there was no real reason for me to add the links (I already had read, heard or seen the stuff myself), so more often than not I just forgot to update the lists.

Therefore I am going to do it differently. I will as of now use twitter.com/soundblog.
Each tweet by @soundblog will be a link to something I recently read, heard or saw and that for some reason I think you should read, hear or see as well.
Those so inclined may as of now follow @soundblog, and check my day-by-day doses of sonic and other information.

Thanks to a fine twitter widget, the most recent tweets will appear in the sidebar, replacing the former 'hear/read/seen' blocs.

As for my own gain in all this: I hope the twitter@soundblog will manage to function as the 'soundblog bookmarks' archive that I never succeeded to establish, in none of the several other ways that I tried.

Et hop ...

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