I recently wrote about the transient nature of modern tech writing, but something I didn’t touch on was the impact of social media. I really like Twitter. It can be an excellent way to follow publications and people whose opinions you care about. However, it is by design essentially ephemeral. Twitter is supposed to be an ongoing stream of ‘what’s now’, rather than a repository for ‘what was then’.

Of late, I’ve noticed a tendency for people to nonetheless use Twitter as a kind of microblogging service. You’ll see thoughts split across a dozen tweets, to which you might often think: Why didn’t you just write a blog post? I’ve been guilty of doing the same myself; meanwhile, this blog’s been very sporadic in terms of updates of late. Surely, any expanded thoughts would therefore be better off here.

So I’m trying something new, getting back to writing more regularly here again, but with shorter, sharper articles. I’m not sure what themes (if any) will emerge, nor even what kind of voice. But I hope any of you who are still checking in now and again will enjoy at least some of what is posted over the coming weeks and months.