Literary Discussions

Now, for example, I just pasted the above post (removing your name, Rach) into a gmail and sent it to post@posterous.com and in one minute it appears http://williambuell.posterous.com/why-bother-to-twitter-or-plurk

but also here http://www.plurk.com/p/ahmht3

and also here http://williambuell.tumblr.com/post/3066842230/why-bother-to-twitter-or-plurk

Now I COULD have it post to Facebook, except Facebook is my primary place to blog, so that would be pointless.  I could also post to http://williambuell.wordpress.com except that is my main blog so I only want to post certain essay type things, and not every little gem that passes through my mind.

But of course, if I make a dumb private joke to Dhanlakshmi in Bhopal in Facebook, I am not going to post or tweet that elsewhere. I tweet only things which might be of some general interest. And, in a bookstore using my Blackberry, I may take a pic of the book I am reading, type some quotes and thoughts, email the thing to post@posterous.com and the whole business will appear in all the blogs and microblogs that I feed.  That is a LOT of power coming from one little email sent from one little Blackberry.