TWOTW

There's a lot of buzz about Twitter at the moment. If you've missed it all, the site allows you to post what some commentators would probably call a 'micro-blog', but 'd say is a mix of a forum post and a blog, limited to 140 words.
A few notable people have signed up around the web, and it does offer a happy medium between broing people on forums with stories of your life, and writing 500 word essays about the fact you're late for work.


The other interesting thing will be mobile integration. While I may disagree with the gold rush timescale of mobile broadband predicted by some of my colleagues, such as Dave Cushman at Faster Future , and in more established mobile broadband areas the novel etc is claimed to be the mobile reading of choice...for the US and UK short snippets should work pretty well on mobile