When you are standing in the middle of nowhere, on a cold winter’s night, feeling the coldness hold onto you, it’s like a zing of pureness that shoots through you.

The zing-pure is the something that lights up your brain with the possibilities of life, it opens your eyes to the creative light that comes from a cold dark winter’s night.

There is another special place-time, it’s the slender time between the pure darkness of the night and the warming glow of the day. It’s the short interlude of inbetweeness. It’s that non-descript moment.

Throughout our lives, there are lots of these non-descript moments that get lost in all of the white noise that is our everyday existence. The white noise is a requirement of life and is the parchment on which the events of our life is written onto. The white noise binds these events together and gives them a rich context of expression.

zing-pure is the punctuation of the white noise. It’s the non-descript; it’s the inbetweeness between the white noise.

zing-pure is what makes us, us; makes you, you; makes human, human.

The next time you are alone in the darkness, try and see if you can find the zing-pure, try and see if you can sense it, feel it. Enjoy the journey it will take you on, enjoy the moment, enjoy the inbetweeness of thought.

Look for the punctuation in the white noise; look for the zing-pure that will light up your brain with inspirational possibilities of life.

So, what’s the problem? Well, there are two things, the first us trying to settle on from where the hell to do the updates from. This is a personal thing and does depend in what you are using to do the updates. I generaly update from my iPhone so use either Twitter (for chatty stuff) or Brightkite for everything else (especially location sensitive stuff).

The main problem I have is something that occurs whenever you meet someone new, and they ask you that question – “do you have a website”. Erm, yes quite a few and … So, do I spend the next 10 mind reeling off all the sites and social networks you can find me on….?

No, that’s stupid – perhaps it just time to accept it, perhaps it’s time to buy a domain and have just one page on it that lists it all. Perhaps it’s time for a Social Hub?

The obvious one is time, or rather the lack of it. The other is that whenever I have an idea for a post, I’m not near a computer.

Well the other day I purchased an iPod touch (32gb), and it turns out that I’m loving the onscreen keyboard, which seems to know what I wand to type I just need to vaguely aim at the right section of the keyboard and it just works. !!

That coupled with the wifi access and the wordpress app are turning this into a groovy little device

So, it’s just down to my ideas now …

What complete and utter bollocks! I can’t believe that yet *another* British icon is being savaged by the political correctness brigade!!

Over 30,000 people have protested against the change, I wonder how many people have complained about Britannia in the past?!

With every passing day England is turning into a PG-rated country, what the bloody hell is next on the list? Perhaps we should change the Union Jack to a beige non-descript flag, so as to make sure that it doesn’t offend anyone?!

Update:
Here they are… http://www.royalmint.com/newdesigns/designsRevealed.aspx

Not sure I like them, I like the fact that each of the old coins was unique and had it’s own story…

A photo:

So, here is the result. A 20 min qik cast of Bradford Street. I have to say, that it was cool to get live feedback while it was being streamed – that really is the best thing about qik!

Oh yeah, thanks John!

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.

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?!