I was recently introduced to the concept of microblogging from an awesome linux podcast.  Thank you Dan and Fab from Linux Outlaws.  I started last week at a site call Jaiku.  Late last week they went down with some server issues and have still not come back.  I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in that service anymore.  Granted I only used it for a couple of days.

So you might be wondering what microblogging is.  It is kind of a weird concept.  It is a cross between email and Instant Messaging.  You make short entries about anything.  What you are doing or thinking, or whatever.  So people can subscribe to your posts and see what you are up to.  It’s kinda cool. There are times that I don’t want to write an entire blog post but want to rant about something or post something small that is going on that I want to share.

On Monday in that same podcast, they interviewed the founder of a different service called identi.ca.  I started using that yesterday.  My profile is identi.ca/discostu.  I also installed the server software on my own site.  I’ll probably be using that one primarily now.  It is open source software so I will probably attempt to make some changes and improve the service.  Sign up if you are interested.  micro.notsopc.com