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information illusion

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

No more, no more, no more politics.  Okay, I can’t resist, per my most recent prior post, pointing out that McCain’s Twitter status stalled out on October 24 - as of this writing it hadn’t been updated for over a week.  At 25 total updates (of which one was a complete sentence) it’s probably safe to say the McCain campaign did not fully embrace Twitter (by contrast, Obama’s campaign logged 256 updates, mostly invitations to watch campaign events live online).

I’ve just got to unplug from all the information, and the illusion of useful engagement consuming it can generate, until this one is over.  So don’t hold it against me if I’m not getting back at your superpokes or whatever.  Judging from past performance my infobreak won’t hold out for too long.