During my speech to a local writers club, one major resistance to blogging seemed to be fear of flames.

“Constructive criticism is okay” was expressed, when I said that you learn more from negative comments than positive comments. My reply to “constructive criticism” was that blog visitors don’t spend time telling you how to fix or improve, they simply complain about what they don’t like.

Now, for micro-blogging, I see a similar resistance from conventional bloggers. “Trivial” they say (an objection leveled against conventional blogs) about Twitter.

But I think they fear the fast response to messages. Twitter is a rushing river of communal messaging, whilst blogs are semi-isolated islands of content.

You publish a blog post, then wait, sometimes days or weeks, for comment responses.

In contrast, a Twitter tweet may generate an immediate reply.