All the podcast aristocracy are currently talking about a web tool called Twitter.
I first found out about it on the Boag World netcast at the end of 2006, but for two months it seemed like another meaningless way of wasting time on the Internet. It has one purpose, which is to tell the world what you are doing at this precise moment. It feels like a cross between a text message and a minimal blog posting. You can only make a Twitter of upto 140 characters that is sent from the Internet of via SMS. You can look at other people’s twitter posts and you can also subscribe to receive alerts when someone in your network writes an update. Alerts arrive via E-mail or SMS. I started liking Twitter again, because you can embed your latest post using a widget or badge in your blog or website. My blog is not directly biographical, but the Twitter widget makes it a little more personal and allows me to write glib messages on issues even if I do not want to research them thoroughly enough to draft a full blooded blog entry. You can see my Twitters in the top right hand corner of this blog.
I like Twitter, because it is good fun.
Links:
boagworld.com,
twitter.com