I have always liked the idea of mycroblogging fro writing down my own chanks of thoughts and copy-pasting quotes from the interwebs on a plethora of completely different topics.
It’s natural. However the modern life makes people to specialize on some pretty specific subjects, their out of office circle of interests is much wider. Separate twitter-like services allow to save all that mind-pasta without cluttering the main blog or personal website.
Twitter/Plurk/Jaiku and so on are good but they are the social networks by their nature. Also, they have too much limitations such as 160 chars maximum, their native web-interfaces are too complicated and overloaded with the social features.
TXT.IO by Thomas Marban from Linz, Austria (the same guy who have made popurls.com) is what the doctor prescribed. Its web interface is very clean, it works very fast thanks to Google App Engine cloud hosting solution and whistles-free interface. Also:
- you don’t need to remember another one login/pass combo if you have Google account
- you can store any url as long as you want because there’s no (un)reasonable limits on post length
- you can use formating in you posts
- you can post your TXT.IO records almost everywhere because you have a full text RSS feed
Here is my txt.io: http://txt.io/666
