Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment August 11th:

• 10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets – Archiving tweets! Wow, if you're putting information out on Twitter as a main source of content for which you don't have alternate backup? For people that really want to recall what all their friends had for meals for the last year? I readily admit that I don't get what Twitter is really any good for unless you also like to watch American Idol, TMZ, Entertainment Tonight or are trying to build your credibility as a "with it" tech blogger.

  I keep logging into my account and checking out the supposedly "hot" things to follow and am completely put off by the dizzying stream of short, tiny-url'd and hence, completely useless posts.