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I kinda like Twitter. I like hearing Laylah be moany from Melbourne, and all about Audra’s daily bus adventures. But one thing that I find hopeful and inspriring, is the use of Twitter by a local Korean restaurant. They have a truck that drives around LA so that you can get great Korean food on the go. Traditionally they would have had to have a reliable route in order to build up a customer base, but now they can (and do) use Twitter. I subscribe to their feed, and I know if the truck is headed downtown or over to Venice.

When Matt and I were in the middle east, I kept marveling at how it really was the most capitalist place I’d ever been. Everything for sale, but small (seemingly) independent vendors. Shops of all sizes (leaning towards the small), plus vendors with small carts (human and donkey powered) or large booths, and independent sellers selling everything from Hezbollah tshirts to chewing gum. It reminded me of the New York City that I grew up in. We had seltzer and milk delivered (not always, but often), and when the knife sharpener came around with his truck we all came out with our knives. I don’t think this happens much any more.

I love the local. And the mobile. And I would love if Twitter (and other web tools), helped bring back us all back to the small scale and local by being able to patronize such things as the Korean food truck.