Nothing is local. Everything is global. This sort of sentiment gets reinforced daily to us, or so it seems.

The globalization of experience has been accelerated through short-form communications tool Twitter. The simplistic product, which reached prominence last year, limits any communication to 140 characters. Much like my column last week, "Print Journalism teaches us the importance of precision," Twitter is rigid in its demands of brevity.

Twitter has spawned a new form of journalism, just as ...