Links for today on blogging and Twitter

• Blogging doesn't have to be extra work. I'm down with the sentiment but in actual fact it depends on what your work is. So taking myself as an example with which I have some familiarity, I note that some aspects of my PhD - like reading loads of stuff on the Web - translates well into blog posts. Other work like actually writing the thing doesn't really - it would be extra work to reword PhD chapters into blog posts. Though in the case of the article at the end of the link, the 'work' is journalism which probably does translate well into blog posts a lot of the time.
  

• Afghanistan dominates the blogosphere for a bit overtaking far more important trending topics like #whatnottowear.
  

• Tenth anniversary of Blogger is celebrated.

• Rather like the Romans all those years ago, 'Twitter has been taking over the world'. But interesting graphics nevertheless.
  

• Mainstream media and (non)-participatory journalism.

• Bonus BBC link - BBC is moving forward, not back says Mark Thompson. Although he (wisely) didn't use those words.

So was that post extra work?