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Sunday, May 9th, 2010

A month ago, I trav­elled to Seattle for An Event Apart and got myself an iPad. A month in, and up until this morn­ing, it hadn’t really changed the way I inter­act with the web. This morn­ing, I bought Net­News­Wire for the iPad, and I think it’s going to make me read blogs again.

Like many people, over the past couple of years, i’ve relied on Twit­ter to provide me with links to blog posts from people I fol­low. It worked well for a while, but when you live on a diet of 100 char­ac­ters or so, you get get thin, jit­tery and unhappy. For a long time, I’ve been unhappy with the way Twit­ter has altered my con­tent con­sum­ing beha­viour. I’m hop­ing that by hav­ing a device that won’t mul­ti­task (for now, I think this is a fea­ture, not a bug), and provide me with daily feeds in an almost newspaper-like format, will get me back to read­ing long-form again.

Oh, and this was pos­ted using the Word­Press app on said iPad. Maybe I’ll start blog­ging more again. You never know, pigs might fly.

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