Years and years ago I remember a commedian telling a joke that basically said, “the reason phones have more holes on the bottom than the top is because people like to talk more than they like to listen.” That’s kind of what Twitter (and really, a lot of this web 2.0 stuff) seems like to me. Everybody’s talking … but is anybody listening?

I’m on Twitter, but still not convinced that it’s worth the hype. I do like it better than many of the fluffier alternatives, like Facebook or MySpace. But using Twitter is like dropping a very cool-looking pebble into a swiftly-moving river to see the ripples. The ripples dissipate, the pebble gets carried downstream as it sinks, and very shortly, there’s no sign that your little interaction ever happened. It doesn’t have to be pointless and/or meaningless chatter, but it is, by design, ever-so-fleeting and almost a bit spam-like.

Remember in Cool hand Luke when he said he was just passing time? That’s what I do on twitter.

2. I still like Stephen Colbert’s theory that the past tense of Tweet is “twatted.” Just sayin’.