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Lately I've been spending more time microblogging on identi.ca.
One of my friend's does a weekly status of his twitter updates to his blog, but I am not convinced if that is useful for people or not.
So what does the interweb think about this?
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Personally, I think it's pointless. People who want to follow your laconi.ca feed (I use TWiT Army instead of Identi.ca), will do so regardless. What I *do* provide is a JavaScript sidebar widget that shows my most recent three posts from my personal timeline.
The sidebar widget is BSD Licensed and uses YUI, and I describe it on my blog (http://blog.foxxtrot.net/2008/10/identica-statuses-widget.html). This way people can see my micro-blog posts, but I'm not redundantly posting them to my blog.
Posted by: Jeff Craig | November 21, 2008 at 14:46
I fail to see how anything constructive can be said in microblogging format. It seems to be about people who think they are important rather than their ideas and what they have to say.
The only useful instance of microblogging embedded in a blog I have seen is the Gendarme people who gather a weekly little blog of new rules they implemented that way. Aside that both microblogging and thus also embedding it in a regular blog is pretty useless.
In your instance, you seem to use it mostly as a public version chatting. So why not just use jabber to talk to your friends?
Posted by: David Nielsen | November 21, 2008 at 15:24
If you typically use microblogging to push out useful info gather it to a weekly blog.
If you use it to say 'I'm at dinner with Jono' it is rather pointless to post that a week later.
If you want it recorded for posterity reasons create a seperate page in your blog to record them without it being pushed out to all your RSS subscribed planets.
Posted by: Chuck | November 21, 2008 at 15:51
pushing microblogging to real blogs is annoying. I hate when I'm subscribed in RSS and I get a bunch of tweets that mean nothing hours and hours later.
If I wanted to subscribe to that I would..
Posted by: Christer Edwards | November 21, 2008 at 16:19
just curious why identi.ca and not twitter.. im a fan of micro-blogging, find it touches a slightly diff audience as well. i post my twitter on the side bar on my blog.. i feel like it works for me.. not sure that means anything though..
Posted by: derrek cooper | November 21, 2008 at 21:08
twitter had too many reliability problems so I jumped to identi.ca rather early and haven't really looked back. Moving back would make no sense (It'd be like moving from jabber back to AIM or something.)
Posted by: jorge | November 21, 2008 at 21:24
More annoying than useful. :-)
I love delicious digest posts (particularly if the author writes great link summaries), but I can just as easily tune in to a person's tweet/dent feed as their blog. Plus, they tend to be more immediate in nature anyway, so less relevant outside their temporal context.
Posted by: Jeff Waugh | November 21, 2008 at 22:23
I use wordpress, so I just have a sidebar RSS widget that displays the feed from the microblog.
Posted by: Roshan | November 22, 2008 at 04:13
Aggregate everything on FriendFeed (like Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter/Identi.ca, etc) and include a link somewhere on the blog to your "lifestream" or whatever the cool term is nowadays.
Posted by: nick | November 22, 2008 at 22:46
http://jwz.livejournal.com/864457.html #4
Posted by: James | November 23, 2008 at 00:46