Always in pursuit of the elusive creature known as Work/Life Balance, I discard activities which monopolize my scarce bandwidth.  I even struggled with tagging this post under "Productivity".  Yet it struck me that Twitter was reaching critical mass, so I thought I ought to see what all the buzz was about.  With a shortcut on my Links command bar, how much time could Twitter consume, what with its 140-character limit per Tweet, eh?

Coincidentally—I won't say serendipitously—one of my favorite commentators, Andrew Ferguson, has a feature on Twitter & its Twits & Tweets in the latest-&-greatest Weekly Standard:

     Twits on Parade:  Twittering is the newest of the new media. And the worst

Entertaining as his writing is, Andrew's opinion of Twitter is less than auspicious.  For now, though, I'm a Twitter.

Do you agree with Andrew that Twitter is the YouTube of 2008?

As Halloween rapidly approaches, I can't resist the corny wordplay:  Happy Twitter: Twit or Tweet!  Tweet me at http://twitter.com/aspiringgeek.