OK, it’s time to start writing again. Like the French, I took off most of August.
I discovered something new in the world of micro-blogging yesterday. Everyone knows about Twitter and its 140 character posts. But some open-source developers have created a platform called “Laconica” that can be installed on any server to create custom micro-blogs. They also feature a 140 character limit to posts. The great thing about Laconica (and any similar open source systems that might come along) is that the micro-blogs will be able to communicate with each other. You can establish an identity on one micro-blog site, and use it on others. Right now, online communities tend to be “silos” unto themselves.
At the same time, a micro-blog could have its own special focus and specialized audience. For instance, I have joined Leo Laporte’s micro-blog on his “This Week in Technology (TWiT)” site. He just set it up a couple days ago, using Laconica, for the community that watches his video-casts at twitlive. Laporte calls his micro-blog “the Twit Army Canteen.” The community is mostly male and all technology junkie. All Twits, in other words.
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