This is the entry where I diss Twitter. All I've heard lately is "Twitter." I think that word is becoming the new "podcast."

I've been trying Twitter for a few months and I was one of those people who used it at SXSW. I hear that SXSW is where Twitter "exploded" and I'm here to dispel the Twitter myth.

For those of you not in the know, Twitter is the latest social media darling. Essentially, it's a platform that allows people to send short messages, often text messages, to people they add to their Twitter list as friends or people to "follow." So you can receive a message online or via text, every time your friend decides to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom. I read someone somewhere called it the Seinfeld of 2.0, the interactive tool about nothing, and I couldn't agree more.

I've been using dodgeball for years. Dodgeball is a useful mobile social network. I add my friends online and then I can text the whole lot of them from location to location just by sending a short code with the venue name to Dodgeball. My friends all receive the message at once, detailing what bar or restaurant I am at, with the address of the place. If I want to send just a line or two of text, I can send that by starting the text to dodgeball with an exclamation point. Simple.

What's better about Dodgeball, beyond their massive database of public venues in most major cities, is that I can add my friends by email or phone (like twitter), or I can just search for them on dodgeball and ask to add them. Twitter has no search. I can't find my friends who are on there - I have to do all the work.

Moreover, I have no idea how other people whom I've never met are adding me or "following" me. I know that I clicked "ok" for them to do so, but how did they FIND me? Why did they select me? I assume they spotted my pic on the SXSW group. Now I have some people - who never even WENT to SXSW - sending me texts about going out for ice cream in some other state. That kills me. They were in the SXSW group but never went. Subscribe to my blog if you want to know what was happening at SXSW, not my twitter where I was asking where the next showcase was.

I know much of the fascination for Twitter is that it's leading toward the next evolution in blogging: the move away from today's "posts" and toward quick hits of information distributed more frequently. If you thought blogs were the People magazines to traditional media's New Yorker, wait until you see the next generation - a cross between zingers and texts. Maybe we should call them Zexts?

But for now, Twitter just ain't all that. Next.