Chicago Tribune editor quits her job today - and I found out through Twitter.
My dear friend Charles Apple does not Tweet on Twitter but he is somewhat surprised by all of the small talk taking place on the Internet - Who has time to Tweet, update your FB status and do all of the other things you are supposed to do?
I mean that is how I was alerted today that Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski was suddenly quitting the paper.
It just takes a few thumb clicks to insta-publish a breaking alert like this. that’s the power of microblogging. It’s instant.
The good news that some of this talk can be automated and since it is small talk - it can be done with your mobile while you are stuck in a boring meeting or sitting on a bus somewhere. So microblogging gives you the option to use time you were already wasting away.
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