twitter's an engine, not a car

a recent post on The Beast from Mark McKinnon is one of many growing voices fighting off the stupidity of incessent twittering. and he’s right. the irony is, twitter will die the exact opposite death as SecondLife… burn out from too much activity, but vacuous experience. ok, wait, that is the same death. nevermind.

the field is open for someone, anyone, to make a ‘deck’ that is useful to the common man and allows broadcast through blog, email, twitter, or ‘insert next thing here’ so that the next big thing isn’t another technology or trick. it’s the meaningful experience. it’s connecting with people in a meanginful way. the final frontier, as always, is defining and designing the best human experience. eager to see what starts flying back. and, hoping twitter is already hard at work building a business on top of its engine because even they know they’ve already become commoditized. and the last thing we need is to fall back to the debate about which 140 character message-slinger is the right one to standardize on…