As I read about micro-blogging, I can not help thinking about what the Mishna would have looked like if there had been twitter. There would have been Rabbi Yehudah Ha'Nassi, typing tweets to his followers. 140 characters or less. Every letter would count. Every word would be packed with meaning. Precise and to the point. Isn't that kind of like what the Mishna is already but on paper?
At the same time, now that I have signed up to follow a whole bunch of tweet feeds, I can't help but think that the twitters that are sent today are by no means as concise or meaningful as Mishna. Everyone under the sun is tweeting - when they are brushing their teeth, where they are having their coffee, and a thought that came to them while on the bus commuting. How does one weed out the useful from the mundane and yet not be over-inundated by 'useless information overload'; it escapes me. I even hesitate writing this blog and putting it out there for others to read because really, as if these are truly original thoughts that you the reader has to spend the 30 secs to read rather than putting that 30 secs into something more useful.
What can I say? I guess I am still old school. I know I need to move past it and get with the flow of the times.Hey, I'm blogging aren't I? It's a start, no?
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