Tweeter's Digest
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 
I'm torn between micro-blogging on Twitter & "long form" blogging on Greens & Berries. (If you aren't familiar with Twitter, you may want to read this overview.) Because each Twitter message or "tweet" consists of no more than 140 characters (spaces included), I'm forced to be highly selective and concise about what I share. I'm still experimenting but I think, used wisely, Twitter can be an efficient, interactive learning and communication tool that spreads the wealth of knowledge far and wide.
Here are several links I shared via Twitter during the past few days:
- A Low-Fat Vegan Diet Elicits Greater Macronutrient Changes, but Is Comparable in Adherence and Acceptability, Compared with a More Conventional Diabetes Diet among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. Here are links to the study's abstract and a dietitian's commentary in the Globe & Mail.
- Gramene Species. If doing research on grasses or just simply curious about cereal grains, this site, which goes beyond genomics, is worth checking out.
- The International Framework for Food Description. While looking for the online Canadian Nutrient File, I serendipitously found this site that includes helpful compilations {1} {2} of food composition data.
- In the Service of Life. Wisdom from Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen who explains the important differences among serving, helping and fixing.
- Food for Thought. An editorial on supplements and neurological disease, published in the online Nature Clinical Practice Neurology.
I've also discovered food and nutrition resources through other Twitter users' updates -- but I'll leave these for another day. You see, I've had to set an Internet curfew. (Many thanks to Sophie who pointed out the blog post that will help me do this.)
Reader Comments (3)
I think it's a really good plan to keep putting the websites down here. Twitter seems very ephemeral when it comes to finding things again. Besides, you can add much more of a meaningful description than you can on Twitter.
p.s Your website is looking so pretty at the moment with the pink and green!
Hi Sophie. Thank you so much for you helpful feedback. Besides the online/offline balance, I'm struggling to balance blogging versus tweeting. I do think Twitter can be used to support our professional work but yes, there's only so much you can convey in 140 bits.
So glad you like the February colour scheme. I think I may keep this one through Spring.
Yes, yes to twitter. But the real purpose of my comment: oh my goodness, that paper in the picture is beautiful!