So, I'm feeling the Twitter, people. (Late to the dance, indeed. Steele's got a two-digit Metafilter ID. In aggregate, we're where we need to be on the curve.) As my marginal understanding of the thing goes, Twitter is an amorphous Web 2.0 interface designed to broadcast...you. Call it Facebook, but with two important limitations:

1) Just because someone loves you, you don't have to love back.

2) You've got 140 characters to get your point across. Be precise and economical. No photos, Super Wall messages, "Lil' Green Patch Society" requests.

There's something to this. Rule one sets up the same relationship that makes for the best, if not the most cuddly, blog eco-systems. Rule two is just elegant. And does have me wondering if our bloggers shouldn't be given a maximum number of daily characters to play with?