I am still trying to grasp the concept of micro-blogging. I have signed up with the website identi.ca after reading about it on Slashdot today as a Twitter alternative; Slashdot users were predicting Twitter's demise this year. Instead of asking "What are you doing" like Twitter does identi.ca asks "What's up". And really the differences between the two services do appear just that minor from an end user perspective.
My current limited use of the service, three posts so far, is somewhat enjoyable. The 140 character limit is quite freeing in a way because you can't over think your posts. At the same time I do not wish to post things that are too mundane. The whole exercise when viewed with all posts from other people is very reminiscent of IRC channels where anything goes. As the public front page feed is the only place to interact with new users.
Whether micro-blogging is a fad is yet to be seen, but so far I would say it will probably live on longer than Second Life.
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