When I started micro-blogging, I started with Jaiku. For reasons that I still can’t quite grasp, I’ve switched to twitter and seem to be keeping it up as well. More than that, I seem to be actually enjoying it too!

I think that it’s down to the fact that twitter has more of a chatty feel to it; you get people just saying what’s on their mind. Be that a rant, or the fact that they are making a chocolate pudding! With other micro-blogging solutions, there seems to be pressure to post something that actually means something, be that a link, video, url or whatever. Turns out that I don’t like that kinda pressure.

So, when people predict the demise of twitter, especially with the out-of-beta launch of pownce, I think they are missing the point. It’s not about features, it’s about the ‘feel’ of it.

Twitter is light and airy.

I stumbled acorss microblogging a while back, and just recently I decided that I would take the plunge and start microblogging myself.

As for which tool I would use, the answer was obvious; twitter. I mean, if it is good enough for Cali Lewis (Geek Brief), then it’s good enough for me. So, I downloaded twitteriffic, and started doing it.

All was going well, in the sense that it was all working, not because I was actually posting that much, when I was told about Jaiku which Leo Laporte uses.

OK, so I’ve now created a jaiku account, and it does seem to have a few more interesting features. I like the idea that you can add Feeds into your stream. In theory, this could mean that it could become kind of like a micro portal of everything I do online; flickr, blog posts, etc…

Jaiku also has a nice phone app, that works just dandy on my Nokia N73, and you can, of course access it via a mobile brower.

I like the idea of having someone what is just the consolidation of everything I do…. but then again, perhaps that should just be a normal blog ? — nah, microblogging is much better(?) – I mean surely people are interested in the fact that I’m buying a pint of milk?!