Microblogs: No Tidbit Too Trivial, No Moment Too Mundane

In cyberspace, no status update is too small to share with friends, family and strangers, including this: In Franklin, Tenn., an office worker reports that he just shuffled over from his desk to the couch. A biker in Orange, Calif., is headed to Starbucks. Elsewhere in California, someone just got coffee up his nose. You might think no one would care — but on the Internet someone might. Thanks to “microblogging,” the slightest bits of detritus from people’s lives are steadily flowing into the maw of the Internet.