In a world of less face-to-face and more online activity, its no wonder we look for contact.

Blogs have taken over the world by storm ever since a few years ago.  FaceBook and MySpace have shown how much people need to be in contact with each other, while behind a computer.  Twitter, the new revolution taking the word by storm is also introducing a way to keep i touch in as little as a few hundred letters.

The great paradox is that we want to be independent while having an online "community."  In a strange twist, being online means being alone.  So can 140 words really explain who am I?  Can it really convey my being?  Maybe not in so little time and space but it does one thing.  It helps me condense my thoughts to a gist.  Most of my posts have a "gist" part so that people car read the essential, even if they miss the rest, they get it.

I come from a generation that was taught to embellish our writing, to make it appealing, sometimes taking long winded sentence structure as the epitome of artful communication.  With Twitter and my blogs, I have to condense so that even my short attention span can read what I have to say, in a gist.

And yes, you can follow the electric car blog I contribute with on Twitter by following: 33Nick