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Blogging v microblogging v tumble blogs
I’m back on my blog after two weeks of installing and playing with kubuntu linux.
The other night I was convinced that I found a meaning to all this web 2.0 publishing. So here are my thoughts on what you can use each publishing service for.
Blogging: Here is where one could post an article of medium or long length. The emphasis here is placed more on content than design. Continue reading
Micro-Blogging
http://identi.ca
When it comes to microblogging, a few services come to mind. These include; Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and even Plurk. After doing a brief study of microblogging providers, identi.ca became my choice.
Identi.ca was launched in July 2008 and it has a similar interface to twitter. The reason I chose Identi.ca over twitter was primarily because the nick I was after was taken and it looked like a solid alternative. One aspect that appealed to me was that it runs on an opensource platform. Continue reading