14 January 2009

I saw this new Adobe Air application on swissmiss called DestroyTwitter, which is desktop software for Twitter, and decided to give it a whirl. I haven’t been active on Twitter in a while, but I do keep up with what’s going on its development arena. So, I installed DestroyTwitter and really liked it — so much so that I decided to publish a tweet, my first one in about 4 months. Then I started thinking, maybe I’ll start twittering again.

In a twist of irony, just today Tina (swissmiss) shared this fine excerpt about realtime distractions:

The biggest impediment to concentration is your computer’s ecosystem of interruption technologies: IM, email alerts, RSS alerts, Skype rings, etc. Anything that requires you to wait for a response, even subconsciously, occupies your attention. Anything that leaps up on your screen to announce something new, occupies your attention. … By all means, schedule a chat — voice, text, or video — when it’s needed, but leaving your IM running is like sitting down to work after hanging a giant “DISTRACT ME” sign over your desk, one that shines brightly enough to be seen by the entire world. (Cory Doctorow)

It’s true! It’s all true. Which is why I took a leave of absence from Twitter to begin with. Like with my web feeds, though, I think I’m at a point where I could be more disciplined with it.

Yes, so, you may indeed find me active once again on The Twitters.