The times (but not the Times) they are a' changing...

Marcia's into Twitter, which I brontosaurically still resist. She just showed me a tweet from James Suckling saying "I am getting into organic, naturel, bio wines... cool and real... even more today. Not just an excuse now for bad winemaking in open sandals! " to which Eric Asimov replied "open sandals? are you rip van winkle, waking up after 20 years?"

Not the best advertisement for Twitter - backing up that nagging feeling that so much of it is inconsequential wittering.

I actually found it quite consequential that Sucking is jumping on the natural wine bandwagon. Next will be Parker & Rolland! Soon there will be a Mondovino about the natural wine conspiracy, and we'll all be yearning for high octane, acid-free fruit bombs.

Oswaldo,

First of all, I love your adjective "brontosaurically.

Second, I am hardly technophobic, but Twitter seems to me to be for... twits.

Third: I've nothing against organic wine, and might even pay a small premium for wines produced this way, but all I can say is that they had better damned well be just as good as non-organic wines or you can forget about them.

Best regards,
Alex R.

I actually found it quite consequential that Sucking is jumping on the natural wine bandwagon.

Oswaldo
Jumping on, or just hopping on and off without lingering? For me it's the flimsy, insubstantial aspect of Twitter that turns me away. If this is a pre-cursor to much more exploration, then it becomes consequential. Otherwise it's perhaps yet another flippant throwaway opinion that Twitter seems destined to be the home of.

regards

Ian

I don't think it's Twitter's fault, Ian. People can be inconsequential by email, on message boards, in person. It's the people who are inconsequential, not the mediums, I think.

Twitter is a medium that lends itself, even encourages, inconsequentiality. It is extremely difficult to make any kind of meaningful statement in the space constraints of a twitter message, whereas on other media you at least have the option. Perhaps a gifted haiku poet could write memorably via Twitter, but alas most Twitter users probably don't know the difference between haiku and horse manure...

I remember reading a book called "The Experts Speak" in which noted "experts" predicted things like "Victory in Viet Nam" and the certainty that "Data processing is a fad that won' outlast the year"...

Neverthless, do you think anyone will twit in a few year's time?

Best regards,
Alex R. (who will stoutly resist twitting, seeing this as symptomatic of superficiality in this day and age)

My own claim to brontosaurisness: Stopping people in airports to ask for help in using the cell phone Nancy makes me carry.