Chewing the fat

After dropping a couple of social networks, then being invited I’ve been doing a bit of thinking, mainly about the value in ‘broadcast’ mechanisms like Twitter and Ponce Pownce. This train of thought lead me into a chat with the-man-that-needs-no-microphone Nik Butler, who is a big fan of social networking (both on- and off-line).

As these sorts of chats are want to do, we did stray quite far from the topic of social networks, but as well as putting the world to rights he did make me appreciate some of the benefits that can be gained from putting the effort into using these sites. This, coupled with the realisation at several points through the day that there were things that I would like to broadcast, but didn’t warrant a full post here has led me to re-register with Twitter.

I’m hesitant to commit to too many networks though – having to maintain a status in Facebook, Jaiku, Twitter and Ponce Pownce is straining. Ideally I’d like to be able to edit one (or any) of them and have the others reflect that. I use Gaim Pidgin because I want my IM in one place¹. I use a feed reader so that I don’t have to go to different places to get content. How long before there is combined client for social networks?

Although I have U-turned with Twitter I stand by my decision to drop MySpace, although my decision had nothing to with class. Quite simply it had almost no value for me in return for maintaining.

¹ Although I had to fire up another application to be able to have the chat with Nik.

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