Micro-blogging
If you are familiar with blogging, I think you’ve also heard of/or encountered Micro-blogging. With a Micro-blog you have a limit of 140 characters to answer one of the most frequent question: “What are you doing?”. But as the micro-blogging has become increasingly popular and has more users so have the use of it changed. Instead of just typing what you are doing, the micro-blogs has become a tool to share links and tips with each other, and also a way to let people know when you have a new update on your blog. Plurk is one of these micro-blogs that let you choose if you want to tell people what you’re doing or maybe what you’re looking for or if you just want to share a link or a photo.

Here are few of many micro-blogs out in the bloggosphere:

• Twitter – This is the original(?) and also the biggest of the micro-blogs on the net
• Bloggy – This is the Swedish counterpart to Twitter
• Jaiku – This was meant to be the “Twitter killer”
• Plurk -On this micro-blog you can choose in which category your post belongs

Nano-blogging
This way of blogging I ran in to yesterday when I stumbled around on the net. A Nano-blog is similar to a micro-blog, but only that a nano-blog is even smaller than a micro-blog. Instead of a limit to 140 characters, you have a limit to one word to explain whatever you want to say. I think this is a quite fun idea and a little bit of a challenge. it may sound easy but try to explain i.e “I have a bad headache and don’t want to work any more today” with just a single word, it’s quite of a challenge but it’s fun. I think that many new and strange words will be born via Nano-blogging.. So far, I have only find a Swedish version of the Nano-blog, and the name of that site is Nanoblogg.se

You can find links to my pages at these services or watch my activites on my “social me” page.

Thanks for reading and you’re welcome to leave a comment

Further reading:

• Micro-blogging on wikipedia
• Chris Pirillo about Twitter at chris.pirillo.com

Twitter in plain English

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

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