Minutes before beginning this piece, I twittered, "At home in Boston, writing about Twitter one more time." Robert Scoble, author of the technology blog Scobleizer, wrote in Half Moon Bay, CA, "Life with Milan is definitely nuts. He wakes us up at 3 a.m. and we both look at each other and say 'good thing he's so damn cute.'" In San Francisco, Twitter cofounder Evan Williams wrote of cofounder Biz Stone, "Talking about Biz's need to get better at twittering." In Tokyo, someone named Shiru said, "I'm getting better at surfing. Okay, time to get back to work."

On Pownce, Michael Owens, a 22-year-old graphic designer in Chicago, addressed himself sternly: "I need a way to force myself not to check social media and blogs and webcomics and all the other things that I get distracted by." A short time later, he posted, "Holy Crap. The Care Bears Movie is on. That's freaking awesome." And over at Facebook, Ed Vaizey, an old college friend who is now a member of the British parliament, told his 233 other friends about his professional reading: "Just read Robin Harris's biography of Talleyrand--superb; and Edward Pearce's biography of Walpole, not so good, far too arch."