Back from Micro-Land
By Brooks Jordan | June 26, 2008
I’ve been micro-blogging on Tumblr and via Twitter, and through my Facebook account, for the last month and it’s been a great experience.
Micro-blogging is – no question – a legitimate way to share information.
One of the main differences is that you get inspired as you move through your day to take a little moment and make it into media. Is it a thought, an image, a choice? When you get the hang of it, you don’t need to think much about it – technology moves to the background – and you just put it out there. No interruption.
With blogging you need a moment or two to craft something, with micro-blogging it’s a communication gesture.
What’s cool is you start to get little pings back like: “You didn’t tell me that you’d be in Mountain View, let’s get together.” And you know – for sure – that lots of people who you won’t hear back from are getting a little something from your micro-posts, simply because that’s your experience with the stuff coming your way.
I’d love it if more people realized how easy micro-blogging is and participated. We need to push that 1% to 3%. It’s nutrition for the mind.
(By the way, I missed blogging.)


