Blogging will die an easy death as bloggers ditch it to tweet about themselves and their cat and what it ate

Four PM., Sun went into clouds, TV blaring, kids fighting it out- and a slight throbbing headache from an overnight excess...

We don't know whether this is relevant to what you do (it is pretty useless information for the likes of us), but still this looks interesting-

In a paper being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of July 6, the scientists report that as zebra finches fine-tune their songs, the brain initially stores improvements in one brain pathway before transferring this learned information to the motor pathway for long-term storage.

-EurekAlert

We also found this interesting description of Zebra Finch Learning System:

Young zebra finches learn to sing by mimicking their fathers, whose song contains multiple syllables in a particular sequence. Like the babbling of human babies, young birds initially produce a disorganized stream of tones, but after practicing thousands of times they master the syllables and rhythms of their father's song.

Speaking of useless knowledge, here is more:

Using an imaging technique that enabled them to trace the process of neural activation in the brains of rats, University of Washington researchers have pinpointed the basolateral nucleus in the region of the brain called the of amygdala as the place where fear conditioning is encoded.

Neuroscientists previously suspected that both the amygdala and another brain region, the dorsal hippocampus, were where cues get associated when fear memories are formed. But the new work indicates that the role of the hippocampus is to process and transmit information about conditioned stimuli to the amygdala, said Ilene Bernstein, corresponding author of the new study and a UW professor of psychology.

-Science Daily

We can now blame our amygdala for our fears, so that is one bit of information that we uselessly processed.

Speaking of information processing, bits and pieces like what we have been dishing out are less than useful: it is in the proper setting, in the light of proper perspective, that they reveal their worth:.

Rambling, of course, but we are searching for a way to relate this piece of insight into this post:-

Blogging is hard when done regularly, and there are plenty of other things that are easier, such as tweeting or posting on someone’s Facebook wall. Blogging requires having something to say, which, in turn, requires some analysis, thought and creativity. All this must happen on a regular basis, on a daily basis, in fact. It’s essentially a lot like working at newspaper except that you don’t get paid. Why bother?

But there is another, deeper problem—that of the short attention span. It is far easier for the average person to read a 140 word tweet than to read a 500 word post on a blog. This is especially so when the blog is light on reader-relevant content as most blogs are.

-The Denver Bibliophile

We were watching the film, "The Proof", and we came across this dialogue: "The future of heat is the future of cold". We very well know where the heat of enthusiasm for blogging will take us- the cold comfort of Twitter (we have started to take to that particular form of triviality).

The Denver Bibliophile predicts that all bloggers won't wind up- those that remain would serve society as providers of links: such as this:

Irena D. was on her way from Moscow to Los Angeles on an unnamed airline.

When she boarded the plane, she was not feeling too well, but things really got out of hand when she stepped off the plane and collapsed. Apparently, one of her size F silicone implants had ruptured.

-Gadling

Be happy.

I have a hunch Irina D. is a Russiana.