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I started Twittering – along with the rest of the MMG team – last year. It was still fairly new and I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

Now I am addicted.

It’s sort of like being a voyeur – I get a glimpse into what people are thinking. It’s also my best news channel. I get great links to blog posts I may never find on my own. Twitter is also a wonderful re-connector. I follow people that I’ve know for years but haven’t seen in ages.

And when our friend Rick Turoczy got the big spread in the Oregonian last Sunday thousands more certainly signed up.

Like all social media, it has a big downside. There is too much of it. I can’t following thousands of people and get anything out of the relationship. And the technology is not perfect. Scalability is a big issues and users have to be very patient.

Lessons learned from Twitter? Like all good communications, it is best when it is focused.

You can follow me on Twitter and see what I am up to.

All of us in the office have hopped on the bandwagon and are now using Twitter, a social networking service where you publish micro pieces of information up to 140 words long. What does this look like? Well, look at my Twitter page for an example.

Lately I've been thinking about the implication of the type of information Twitter provides—what I have been referring to (at least in my own head) as microknowledge.

Essentially what Twitter is...is microknowledge. How much context can be added in 140 words? Not much. Like so much out there in our lives today, we are all losing our patience. We want it faster, briefer. But if we get it faster and briefer, what do we lose in the process?

In the bigger picture of things, I say we may be losing our ability to analyze, draw conclusions, and think about things deeply and meaningfully.

This is not to say I think microknowledge has no value. It absolutely does. And I've come across some really interesting things thanks to it.

I just wonder the implications microknowledge has in the scheme of our intelligence and its effect on our ability to most effectively find our personal reality and truth as human beings. Without context, can ever have meaning?

Truth be told, we are all are experiencing major info bloat! And not much of the info is relevant.

I'd like your input. How do you think microknowledge has affected you and how you learn and process information? My take: There is a big difference between intelligent and intelligence.