Tweets, media sound bite summaries of important topics and instant solutions to age old problems and are certainly a product of our current "information assault" culture but shouldn't they serve only as an information index of topics to whet ones appetite and filter subject matter for future research or debate? Relying on internet headlines as ones complete information resource results in overlooking valuable facts and substance necessary to being well informed. Has the world become so shallow?

Follow up:

For those of you who have read my posts you may have noticed they are anything but brief. I labor mightily to offer, what I believe to be, well thought out prose that presents more than a mere thimble full of intelligent discourse or humor. This takes however, a substantial amount of time - which is often at a premium. Interesting ideas for articles come and go from my consciousness at the speed of light, many going unexamined as the wisp of inspiration is supplanted by the need to return my focus to driving the car or some other earthly bound activity. Regretably my ancient Blackberry does not possess a voice record function and I am not in the habit of keeping a pen and pencil at the ready to note these seeds of "internet enlightenment to be".

For the longest time I could not wrap my mind around the need for the current phenomenon that is Twitter, but in a rare moment of elucidation, I realized how I might make use of this seemingly vacuous (ie. devoid of matter, empty,lacking intelligence, stupid, inane) technology to my own benefit. In a manner similar to the way these pearls of wisdom flash into my mind in an act of creativity, so too might I make them manifest for the whole world to see (or the very least my readership) through the mere act of Tweeting.

While I understand that sharing a moment of creative genius is not a typical use of this Twitter technology, I some how think it will be substantially more interesting to others than many of the mundane and inane tweets I have been privy to. I wonder how a similar service geared toward philosphers, inventors or entrepreneurs might actually serve to benefit society by bringing forward the next generation of great ideas for collaborative development thereby propelling our nation into the next intellectual revolution.

Are you with me?