Micro-blogging Is All We Have Time For
You’re probably wondering why I haven’t been blogging much this week. I’ve been pretty slammed up right now trying to launch some sweet new sites.
Site design is changing. Static brochure sites made way for content management system allowing lots of personal content. The problem now is that there is too much content…to much noise. Just look at PNN today. Can you possibly read all those new stories?
Just a few months ago long issue based blog posts were expected of our tech-savvy elected officials. That’ s no longer the case as Twitter and other micro-blogging platforms are allowing our elected officials to stay in constant contact with us. We don’t have time to read those long blog posts anymore. We need people to get straight to the point and eliminate the noise. We need 160-character tweets.
That’s why Friend Feed is hot and why the Facebook redesigned is great. It’s all about simplicity.
Taking all that into consideration, the Under The Power Lines team is doing something a little different and launching two new political sites built on micro-blogging and a system that ties social networking sites all into one easy to read feed. Stay tuned. They launch later this week.
In the meantime, I might now have time to blog, but I can always find time for a 160-charachter tweet.