I was thinking over the christmas period (happy new year to you by the way!) about how much time I spent with my nose in the iphone, either checking on friends via facebook or friends/colleagues/work/hobbies related stuff on twitter.

It struck me that only about a year ago I was very sniffy about twitter but would say now that is really is a great piece of technology and is shifting how we interact and behave : personally, locally and globally.

See some of the earlier posts related to my reserve nay scepticism about Tweeting. Even the term annoyed me ;-)

BUT .. I found myself at some quiet times over the holidays reading tweets that were filtered by the lists I've been curating.. social, tech, photography etc.

To be able to pick up as much of-the-moment info and enteraining / stimulating  thinking via a stack of magazines or newspapers or through sitting and searching / browsing on my mac via Google wold have taken for ever.

With the lists I've set up I was quickly absorbing some really interesting stuff from clever people and making the occasional note of an expanded thinkpiece (via a link they cited) for a deeper read.

To that end, I just read read an article by David Carr in the NYT about similar views he had. It expands beyond my point on lists curation so have a full read, it's a great article.

Twitter isn't a fad and is now part of the plumbing (I think it was Steve Johnson who Carr cited for that analogy - it's very apt).