New year new you

I've been neglecting the blogosphere of late - too distracted by the novelty of Twitter and the not-so-novel but nonetheless distracting Christmas period. Fear not, one of my new year's resolutions is to lavish much more attention on writing here and less on stalking @simonpegg et al.

More on resolutions tomorrow, promise.

Tweeting

I've finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. Some would say six months too late, now it's been appropriated as a marketing tool a la MySpace, but it takes celebrity stalking to a whole new level (I discovered @snoopdoog by checking out who Liz Taylor was following) so better late than never!

If you tweet let me know who you are and I'll follow you, too.

Highbrow tweeting

In a radical move the Royal Opera House is staging an opera composed of Twitter postings to @youropera.

Get your tweets in now.

Theme of the day - politics and the web

I'm not intentionally tackling a theme a day, honest!

Anyway, the papers may not have noticed by Newcastle City Council last month became the first British council to announce election results on Twitter. It's a bit of a gimmick but hey, if it gives the web generation greater access to politics on a local level then it has to be good.

You can find the council twitter feed here. I don't tweet, as it were - there's enough of me out there on Facebook and on here for anyone - but I'm a bit of a lurker and it is a joy to behold.