The passing of a would-be twitter addict
October 29th, 2007 by Benjamin KuoNPR today ran a great piece on the passing of Robert Shields, an 89-year old former English teacher and pastor, who maintained a minute-by-minute diary of his life since 1972. Shields documented every 5 minutes of his life, every day, for years. Listening to NPR’s coverage in the car today, I couldn’t help but think of all of the twitter addicts /twitterholics — those who can’t help but use the twitter service to give everyone a constant, often minute-by-minute update on what they are doing and thinking.
