Procrastadabbler

Time Magazine contains an article about Twitter (wow, big surprise), but what I find interesting about the article is two-fold

1) “the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of. In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. It’s what we’re doing to it. ”

That’s what the neo-Vygotskyans have been discussing for a long time. Twitter’s making it obvious.

2) The description of people joining in and continuing (via Twitter) a conversation that started at a conference. This leads me to imagine a class debating an article, using Twitter for back channel, and the author and others contributing. I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination thinking this would be a regular occurence, but it sure would be nice to have a lively conversation about ideas that extends beyond the walls of the classroom.

I’m intrigued by and am enjoying watching these various modes of interaction evolve. I started in 2000 thinking about IM, now nine years later we’ve gone through IM, Facebook/Myspace, and now Twitter as the hot topic. I’m excited to see where we go next (and if anybody has any clues as to what it might be, let me know and I’ll buy stock).