About 3 years ago, podcast was the "in" thing. While indeed it sounds revolutionary, it is nothing of the sort really. Podcasts are simply small digital video/audio clips that celebrities and celebrity-wannabes recorded and uploaded to the Internet.
The lengths to which people would actually coin a term for "digital content" so as to associate it with Apple's technology is really something I could not possibly understand. I believe the term would have made more sense to me if I traveled back in time to 1996 and called snippets of my incoherent ramblings on a cassette tape a Podcast and simply painted discmans and walkmans white and called them iPods. But on hindsight I did not, and that was why I remained this poor pauper that I still am today.
I admit that I've have never been a big fan of iPods after a friend sold me his "refurbished" iPod which could last for about a lengthy 45min of playback. Now, a song by comparison lasts for about 4minutes so I could plug in to the cute white music player and put the track on repeat mode for 10, maybe 11 times and that would be it.
Of course, I could have taken the iPod on a jog since it could help me keep track of how long I ran, or I could have brought along a $20 casio watch that kept time just as well. Carrying around a 300g mp3 player as I ran would also be perfect for weight training although I abandoned the idea as I could never decide whether to train my left or right hand each day.
So now, they have Twitter, or micro-blogging. Which really wasnt available already on Facebook or blogs or RSS feeds or forums when they first launched. Many people likened it to Internet SMS. The service works this way, you get an account which is something like your blog and you update it frequently and your messages ("tweets") get pushed to people who "follow" you. Well, most of those who use Twitter feel that they have to let everyone else know what they are up to every few minutes.
Twitter would really be useful if you were senile and incontinent which would explain why you forgot that you crapped in your pants while tripping over your soiled underwear 3 times over the last hour and therefore you need to constantly remind the social workers of your whereabouts.
But no, I would safely assume most of these twerps (twitter users) are actually people who spend most of their lifetime sitting in front of a terminal staring blankly at the screen while thinking about their next 160 character tweet when in fact, they could be like me typing out the next 1600 word blog post. At least I dont have to delete my message over and over again just to make sure it doesnt exceed the word limit.
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