You hear a lot about the advent of "microblogging" today, but in my opinion the best compromise between the point-to-point burst of IM and the prose-heavy burden of broadcast blogging is Google Reader. At first, it looks like an RSS reader, but it's really a whole lot more (in about the same way that Twitter is a whole lot more than Web-bound SMS). For example, if you look at my shared items on Google Reader, you'll see that I've got comments on most of the items I've shared. Some of the things I share are from my own sites, but most are from the Web in general. News, photographs. Whatever I'm reading tends to get shared, and the stream-of-consciousness ranges from political commentary to gaping at gadgets to thinking out loud about photography.
This is what I'd really like to use Twitter for, but it can be too cumbersome at times to compress my thoughts plus a link into 140 characters. Sometimes there's just too much context for that.
This is what I'd really like to use Twitter for, but it can be too cumbersome at times to compress my thoughts plus a link into 140 characters. Sometimes there's just too much context for that.
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