So we were supposed to get 10 days of rain. However, it has not been a full ten days of rain.
I guess, on one hand it is a catch 22, I hate the rain but I hate the heat just a little bit more.
It was 90 or 92 today, the billboard sign we passed on the way home said 100. This had to be the heat index as the humidity is still pretty high not the +80% it was over the weekend but high.
Anyway, I have lived here for almost 10 years now, so the idea of a hot summer really isn't new or surprising.
Jeremy did a quick post about micro-blogging. So I guess I should chime in too.
I used Twitter while I was at the Web 2.0 conference, since there was such hype about it at the SXSW conference. I wanted to find out what the deal was. While, it was neat, the whole text messaging thing was a bit annoying.
I have to say that I like the 'status' feature on Facebook, which can arguably be called micro-blogging. Facebook is sort of a swiss-army knife of a site with all the features. Now that they have an Open platform (F8) there is a Twitter application you can install on your Facebook profile, thus merging the two.
I haven't really used Jaiku, I learned about it at the ETel conference Jaduka attended earlier this year. I guess I will need to try it out.
I did try out Pownce, given that I am a bit of a Digg fanboy, so the at least trying out Kevin Rose's new deal is the least I could do.
It is interesting, but not spectacular.
I think micro-blogging is a powerful thing, at ETel and Web 2.0 there was this concept of 'Presence' (more so at ETel) floating around, to me all the micro-blogging sites are a form of Presence that has history, so you can go back and look at what people had previously set their Presence to.
I don't think it is a replacement for blogging. But I think it is a very nice compliment, particularly as more and more micro-blogging sites get added into more and more places, cell-phones, popular social networking sites, desktop widgets, etc.
All for now.
Laterz
