Twitter killed my blog

That photo needs top-billing commentary. Bill Stimpson, a photographer sharing his work on Flickr has done this fantastic set. In it, he redoes a number of classic photos using Lego figures and parts. He links to the original shot, shows his setup for the shot and, best of all, exposes everything under a Creative Commons license. That means I can post one of his shots here (above), attribute it to him and not break laws. It's so rare to see someone producing work of this quality and using CC. Cheers to open intellectual property rights. He's even been selling economically-priced prints of these shots. This is the most creative piece of art I've seen in, well, a while. The set, a growing work, is worth a perusal.

But back to the subject of this post. I used to hate Twitter. In its early days, its founders trumpeted it as a tool to answer the question, "What are you doing right now?" I riposted that I don't really care what you're doing right now. But Twitter's evolved into a micro-blogging platform and when I come across articles or content worth sharing, I post it there. And so I find less and less need to post medium-form content here. This isn't just me, either; I feel I read posts like this weekly.