Jeffrey Zeldman must be talking about me in one of his latest posts - The vanishing personal site. He writes about how blogs are transforming thanks to social networking sites and other factors that mean that sites like MacNetJournal fade while people shift to other, less personal, more sound-bite driven tools like Twitter. I am guilty of doing a lot more posting on Twitter than I do on MNJ over the last couple of months. Sometimes change is a good thing, but I wonder if this particular change is worthwhile? What I see is that it is just another part of the shifting attention span of people in the Internet age. While we used to write and read entire paragraphs strung together into things called articles in newspapers and on the Net, many are now shifting to 140 or less character snippets of life on Twitter, or status updates on Facebook or one of the myriad other tools. Worst of all, I have fallen prey to this problem. As my time has shifted to updates on Twitter and creating a new site about eating local foods - eatlocalwashington.com - my updates on MNJ have slipped month over month.

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