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        <p class="style11 style4">Twitter, Twitter, Tweet </p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8">At the time of this report I have 759   followers on <a href="http://twitter.com/tombodett" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a> and I am following 10 twits myself.  For those of you as out of it as 
          I was ten or twelve days ago: Twitter is like an old fashioned chat 
          room except everyone gets to decide who&rsquo;s in the room.  You take the 
          comments of only those you want to read and you can block people who 
          creep you out from reading yours.   Beyond that, it&rsquo;s a chat room 
          where you can say pretty much whatever you want as many times as you 
          want about anything you want 140 characters at a time.   As wide open 
          as it is, nobody on it can seem to come up with much to talk about 
          except what&rsquo;s going on with them.   I do it myself.</p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8"> Two days ago I tweeted, &ldquo;A beautiful spring morning in 
          Vermont.  19 degrees and sunny.  Our sap buckets runneth over.&rdquo; 
          All true.  Pastoral.  Vaguely literary.   A good tweet, by twitter 
          standards, I think.  Yesterday  I mentioned my dental cleaning 
          appointment.</p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8"> The ten people I follow so far are mostly friends &ndash; some 
          famous, some not &ndash; and relatives.  No one famous.   My son out west 
          tweets about going to work and eating breakfast.  This warms my heart 
          a little.  When other people tweet about their breakfasts it is not 
          as heartwarming. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=7" target="_blank">Weekend Edition</a> host, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3874941" target="_blank">Scott Simon</a>, who I follow, vowed he would never tweet
          about his breakfast, but then last week he did.  Nice job of it, 
          though.  That&rsquo;s the basic problem with Twitter.   You find yourself 
          digitizing passing thoughts that would otherwise&hellip;pass. The cursor 
          blinking in that little box is just begging you to do it.  It used to 
          only be 24 hour news channels having to feed the beast with whatever 
          information they could dredge up.  Now we all have a crawl at the 
          bottom of our screens.  On the train to Pittsburgh -- Check my blog 
          on Michael Steele -- My cat eats Fruit Loops --</p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8"> Twenty-five years ago I staggered into a not half-bad 
          career by contributing commentary on NPR's afternoon news program <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2" target="_blank">All 
            Things Considered</a>.  I mostly talked 
          about the same stuff people are Twittering about these days:  What 
          the dog had been up to.  Things I found in my junk drawer, and yes, 
          breakfast.   Over a period of a few years of it I became obsessively 
          self aware and no small detail or event in my life went unexamined as 
          material.  I got so sick of it I had to turn to writing fiction, 
          which was probably not the best career move but it settled my stomach.</p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8"> The great essayist E.B. White addressed this problem in 
          the forward to a collection of his essays, which I once quoted in 
          full in the forward to a<a href="http://tombodett.com/titles/smallcomforts.htm"> collection of mine</a>.  In it he says in part, <em>The essayist is a self-liberated 
            man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks 
            about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.</em></p>
        <p align="justify" class="style8"> He concludes with this admission, <em>I have always been 
          aware that I am by nature self-absorbed and egoistical; to write of 
          myself to the extent I have done indicates a too great attention to 
          my own life, not enough to the lives of others.</em></p>
        <p align="justify"><span class="style8">759 followers and following 10.  E.B. White  would understand, but 
          I&rsquo;m getting a weird feeling in my stomach again.  Something I ate for 
          breakfast<span class="style10">?</span> Probably worth a tweet. </span></p>
        <p>As heard on <A href="http://www.bobedwardsradio.com" target="_blank">The Bob   Edwards Show</A> on XM/Sirius Radio May 4, 2009</p>
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