Blogging Versus Twitter

How does human cognition function ? There are two main elements of cognitive functioning in humans; short term memory and long term memory. Short term memory is based on RNA processing and organizes day to day functions.

However, long term memory is based on information storage at the protein level. Information is stored permanently on newly synthesized proteins.

The world of informatics also functions on the same short term and long term concepts of information transmittance and retrieval. REM stands for the short term info processing and hard disc capacity in terms of Bytes, which stand for long term info processing.

These short and long term concepts are playing a role also in the social media. Blogs are long term events, where information is stored permanently. On the other hand, twitts via twitter are carrying information from blogs to blogs quickly. Twits are REMs and blogs are the hard discs of the social media.

Twitts are especially important in health care related social media since diseases often need immediate communication. EMERGENCY cases such as broken legs as well as spread of pandemics such as swine flu can best be communicated via Twitts on twitter.

American Genes, http://www.americangenes.com is a whole package for health care related social media. The site has both, a blog medium and a twitter messenger.