the blog is quiet

The blog is quiet for a number of reasons, including

* I have moved to using Twitter (@scilib) and FriendFeed a lot more for sharing information
* I have a new iPhone and as I discussed in my Twitter modes posting, short-posting services like Twitter are a more natural match for using on mobile devices.  You can blog from an iPhone, but it would take a lot of patience to tap a long posting out on the virtual on-screen keyboard.
* Reason I can't tell you which will be announced soon

In the meantime, you can look to Twitter and FriendFeed, e.g. for the recent ICSTI conference in Ottawa look at the #icsti2009 hashtag and the FriendFeed room.

This does point out one really unfortunate thing about Twitter search - it's not like Google, it doesn't go forever back in time.  It is intentionally limited to recent tweets.  So it looks like there was only one #icsti2009 tweet, when there were actually dozens, as you can see in the archive on FriendFeed.  (In fact making a FriendFeed room is one way to get some preservation of your tweets, although I believe FF search also doesn't cover all the way back in time either.)

And I recognize that Twitter is a much noiser information channel, full of half-formed thoughts, asides and insider person-to-person conversations.  The blog is still the best platform for long-form thoughts.

Comments

[bill]

I think FF search goes way back, and if not you can use Google "site:friendfeed.com keyword1 keyword2...", which I'm pretty sure goes all the way back.