Microblogging & Asides

We all try to keep the signal to noise ration down quite a bit when communicating. Unfortunately, I think most of us are usually on the receiving end of it. I have tried to keep tabs on my communicating by asking myself the questions: Is this the right outlet? Is this the right context?

Normally I will send out a tweet with just a little bit of information rather than whip out Wordpress and goto town writing a blog post because what I have to say doesn’t need to be elaborated on.

I do not have a blog of my own. I have a tumble log, but that’s nothing more than an aggregate of what I publish. So I publish in different blogs that have to do with the topic I’m writing about - be it politics, culture, or technology (here).

So after being unsatisfied with our current Twitter/Blog/RSS scheme, I came up with an interesting idea to weave our tweets into the flow for Downtown Cartel as asides. Matt Mullenweg, creator of Wordpress, introduced asides to the blogging community a couple of years ago. I found that asides were exactly the thing that microblogging platforms like Twitter and Pownce tried to be but were handled differently - mainly by method of distribution.

I’m still trying to figure out how to pull off asides so that they work with Twitter, Wordpress and Twitter-Tool. I’m not certain that this can be done, but we’ll see.