• NY Times Editor: Twitter Giveth, And Twitter Taketh Away

    Devin Coldewey

    Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he’d like you to read: The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge | Generation i | Surveillant Society | Choose Two | Frame Wars | The User’s Manifesto | Our Great Sin His personal website is coldewey.cc. → Learn More

    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

    I was tempted to make the headline “NY Times Editor: I Agree With Devin Coldewey,” since his editorial today, “The Twitter Trap,” lamenting the loss of traditional ways of remembering and learning, is a very close sibling to my own The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge. His experience was a little more personal, however, watching his daughter finally join/succumb to Facebook.

    It’s an interesting read and he gets a few worthwhile perspectives from others, including Jonathan Safran Foer, whom many of you have read (though I haven’t). It was reassuring to read the piece, if only because I now know there’s someone eminent who shares my perspective.

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