Here's a copy-paste of a comment I left on an article on Slate about Twitter. The overall idea is applicable to all microblogs, but I kept it Twitter-centric because the article was Twitter-centric. Certainly, you could expand on this so much more, especially if you added SMS notifications to identi.ca groups....but that's another topic for another time....
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Open Artist Hub
April 8, 2009 -
You may have heard of NIN's superawesome iPhone app from that small time blog called Wired. The possibilities for such an app have long been there, and I can't help but feel that NIN would do an even better service to the community at large by open sourcing such an app. The NIN iPhone app provides a mobile interface ...
moreInternational Day of Awesomeness
March 10, 2009 - Today, March 10th, is the International Day of Awesomeness!
The International Day of Awesomeness is a celebration of awesomeness. People are awesome every day, frequently don't realize it, and their feats of awesomeness are rarely recognized. We aim to fix that, with a special day to both perform and celebrate feats of awesomeness!
In other words, celebrate me....and ... more
Microblogger rant
March 7, 2009 - This is close to a copypaste of what I already posted on my microblogs, especially on identi.ca. Saw an interesting article on Facebook, an msnbc article complaining about the obsessive media coverage of Twitter.
Get over it, Twitter isn't that big a deal. That msnbc article is spot-on. The concept of activity streams behind microblogging is indeed an interesting area. ... more