nerdcast:

This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.

This post is an experiment in itself. If you want to communicate me, open a Tumblr account, follow me, repost my blog and then add to it. I’ll follow you back. Agree or disagree, lionize or demonize, but for God’s sake, be original. You’ll have all the room in the world to do it now.

I’ll have to go ahead a disagree here, John Mayer. Both mediums are different and the same.

If you’re going to go ahead and follow everyone that reblogs this, your feed will be forever clogged with mumbled chatter much like your @ replies no doubt were.

I can see Twitter becoming essentially useless nearing 4 million followers. With replies every 30 seconds or thereabouts, what’s the point of even trying to communicate?

Your Tumblr will no doubt follow the same fate.

Of course he went out a got a Tumblr. Of course. Didn’t I predict this or something?

Well.

It won’t be long before he’s ruined this for everyone too, and moved on to something else.