Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
I'm schizophrenic,
And I am, too.
A while back, I wrote a disgruntled open letter to Google for dumping the share button in Google reader, effectively sabotaging my ability to efficiently add links to my sidebar. After some consideration, I decided to embed a Twitter feed in place of the former Google Shared Items, which is not quite efficient (four clicks/link vs. one), but has worked out okay, I guess.
This change has had a couple of undesirable consequences, however.
- Formerly, the Google feed contained only links to things that were informative or entertaining, and hopefully, edifying. Now, everything I do there, no matter how inane or irrelevant to the general audience, shows up in my sidebar. Like the day I got sucked into that #ReplaceFilmsTitleWithDeacon meme and posted sixteen entries of my own. Sure, they were brilliant and exceptionally witty, but not really what I want the Thirsty Theologian to look like.
- I like to link to political and cultural issues as well as theological, but have begun to hold back on those because I'd like the links on this blog to be more First Kingdom focused (see here). Furthermore, Twitter is often the internet equivalent of smog. I'd like to at least give my followers (Oh, how I hate the sound of that!) the ability to filter their feeds.
For those reasons, I'm going to experiment with something new. I've decided—IRONY ALERT!—to create another Twitter account. @TheThirstyTheo will still appear in the sidebar here, linking First Kingdom items almost exclusively. Second Kingdom items, stray thoughts, and general goofiness will be confined to @David_Kjos. If that interests you, you can follow me there, or display your spiritual superiority by simply ignoring it.
Good idea? Bad? We'll see. Your feedback is welcome.
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