NYT Foodie Mark Bittman Has His ‘Power’ Cake, Tweets It Too

And the award for most blasé member of the Power Grid  goes to … #8 Print/Online Columnist and NYT foodie Mark Bittman.

Bittman, who literally has his hand in every pot — books, blogs, Twitter, Today, print — told Splice Today that he’s still not sold on the value of Twitter and other ‘short-form’ media:

As for the industry, it’s the same for me as it is for anyone else—there’s a bigger online component now, and whether that component, or the social networking is overrated, that remains to be seen.I don’t believe print is dead. I’m not convinced all the super short-form stuff—Facebook, Twitter, and so on—is all that important. And I’m not convinced there’s not room for expertise, because sometimes it seems as though everyone believes that everyone’s input is equally valuable. Call me old-fashioned but I guess I don’t get that.

Easy for somebody with 14,000+ followers to say. Apparently for some, minimalism — expressing oneself in 140 characters of less that is — is just business as usual.

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