Time has an interesting article about the current online trend toward “mini-lit.” The surging popularity of Twitter has contributed, I’m sure, but sometimes it also seems that people’s attention spans are getting shorter.
Time has an interesting article about the current online trend toward “mini-lit.” The surging popularity of Twitter has contributed, I’m sure, but sometimes it also seems that people’s attention spans are getting shorter.
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JodiLee 08.27.08 at 4:11 pm
I can’t stand twitter. I have more friends worried about making their thoughts fit into so few words, rather than worrying about where to send their manuscripts. They’d rather use twitter to promote their materials than write useful, full blog postings, etc.
It’s ridiculous.
Mari Adkins 08.27.08 at 5:52 pm
And yet, if they were smart, they could write those blog posts and configure twitterfeed to feed those posts into their twitter accounts - and kill two stones.
Criss 08.27.08 at 8:25 pm
“Hi, my name is Criss, and I’m a Twitter addict.”
Now, let’s not forget illustrated mini-lit: Six-Word Story groups on Flickr (also inspired by Mr. Hemingway’s story).