You probably follow most of the blogs I follow, but I do blog regularly about things mostly library related — its a bit medical skewed, but feel free to take a look –theadlibrarian.wordpress.com

In my opinion Twitter enhances the conversation in that it can drive people to your blog, but also bring the conversation outside of the confines of your personal blog space and into the community. Instead of people just discussing ideas in the comments they can be shared with the twitterverse.

This is very important for the cross-pollination of ideas. Maybe something you post is library related, but perhaps someone in the business world or the world of anthropology comes across your idea on twitter and starts thinking about it. This is what allows innovation to happen and to get people thinking outside of their own discipline.

Twitter is another larger community where people can share ideas. I find a lot of great stuff there that’s not library related but applies directly to my career and gives me a fresh perspective.

I think calling the death of blogging is a bit premature. It seems more like a natural process of separating the wheat from the chaff in the blogosphere is playing out right now with worthwhile and regular writers still shining while others without much to say are falling by the wayside. I suppose only time will tell for sure though.

Totally agree with you on the parenting thing–it’s a lot harder to fit in all the things you want to do professionally and personally while you have a baby. It gets easier, but for me it means the things I love to do but aren’t immediate needs–like blogging–get backburnered more than they used to.

Emily said: “sometimes I feel like blogs are just too much to read” – I feel like things lose their value if you are too overloaded. Blogs I can cope with – I can manage it in such a way that they enrich my existence in some small way… but microblogging too adds yet another layer and I just don’t want it.

Plus, I signed up to Twitter a while back under a mande up name, to see what it was all about. I’ve never tweeted, but I randomly have 5 followers already! Discernment is clearly low on their list of attributes.

I learned my stride on Twitter because I discovered that an hour or two of committed Twitter time works really well. I am not “on Twitter” 24/7, but I join in on the conversation for periods of time. That brings it in line with blog writing, actually – if you add comment writing etc., it actually sucks less time.

The other thing is that I am less likely to consider “librar*” topics on Twitter, because I know the audience there is much more diverse. On my blog I am speaking largely to librarians, particularly library students. On twitter, I am speaking to the “customer” or potential customer.

It’s almost like the library 2.0 has gotten boring now, so it’s being implemented en masse. So, my blog has gone from RSS-traffic conscious to google-traffic conscious now. It still gets quite a bit of traffic besides.

I became a Twitter Quitter on May 28th – and blogged about it. http://www.multitypelibrarian.com/?p=331