Twitter vs Blogs

by Cal Newport

Convoluted Tweet threads and thumbnail screenshots of longer articles are a poor way for experts to explore evolving, complicated ideas. But there's a solution. We need to augment social platforms with a surge in capacity of the original Web 2.0 technology that these upstarts so effectively displaced: blogs. We need WordPress-style sites featuring both easy-to-update static pages and chronological posts. These sites could be hosted by institutions with some degree of public trust and a reasonable technology infrastructure, such as universities, medical centers, and think tanks. Some mild gatekeeping could be performed on the experts granted blogs by these institutions, and critically, IT support could be provided so that the experts could start publishing with minimal overhead.

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Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the author of Digital Minimalism. His six sentences are a slightly reworded excerpt from his blog.