The virtual world conference I went to a the end of last year which included a fair bit of Twitter as a 'back channel' for delegates to communicate, was the final push I needed to give Twitter a go.

So from the beginning of the year I've been trying it out. Not for work purposes so I can't imagine why anyone would want to follow it. But if you should be so minded, email me and I'll tell you how to look me up.

I'm not *entirely* sure I get the point of it yet. So far it just seems like very self-centered and very short blogging. But I've chosen three people to follow and have found it worth bothering with. I think.

Away to a work organised 'retreat' tomorrow and Friday (more a mini-conference really). I think the hotel will be really nice (!), but a computing academic and I might try recreating the Twitter back channel experience again.