Twitter connects to Gnip

More movement in micro-blogging!
Recall that Gnip is a ping syndicator, sort of weblogs.com on steroids. Not the simplest of APIs, but apparently quite powerful. I tried to get some code running with it, but hit a hard wall that I couldn’t get past. No matter, others are successfully adapting to Gnip.
I just read this announcement […]

Go read Marc’s post now

Highly recommend this post by Marc Canter, it’s filled with ideas. Much the same as my thinking. I have a post planned for tomorrow or Sunday that should blow out some assumptions about identity and federating these micro-blogging services. Low-tech, worse is better, re-use what’s already out there, as Marc says it’s all happening now, […]

What about blogging?

Publishing keeps getting cheaper.
That’s been the constant push, the practical application of Moore’s Law in my neck of the woods. I’ve always been a publishing guy, and that’s always been how I viewed computers, and it’s why I got into them in the first place.
Most people don’t get this, the real story of blogging is […]

Mini-blog posts

I never agreed that Twitter is what some people call a micro-blogging service. Just didn’t feel much like blogging to me. But FriendFeed is another story. I am using it more like a blogging tool than Twitter. For example…
1. Yesterday I snuck out to see the new Batman movie on its opening day. I wrote […]