OK, I just made that up...lifecaster...maybe it's already a web 2.0 company name somewhere but I haven't heard of it yet. It's the only word I can think of to describe what members of
twitter.com are doing. Twitter is the latest flavor-of-the-month breakout web 2.0 site, and has even spawned a series of
hacks and clones.
It figures that in this blog-eat-blog world, one well written blog per day would soon be considered "long form." The folks at Twitter have created a site that embraces the one-sentence update about what you are doing right now, and its members update their goings-on every hour or so, sometimes more frequently.
OK it's mildly interesting, but I suspect that the twitterer thinks their twitters are more important than they actually are, and the readers' initial voyeuristic thrill will wane quickly. The bigger picture is that it is really another social network and a way to make virtual friends, (if you are not so much into your real ones).
The more interesting potential of twitter, IMHO, is the special interest (and I don't mean that in the typical negative political sense of the words) twitter "columns". Bite-size trivia and updates on a topic, good for short attention spans like mine. An example is
LiveEarth.
Wired magazine has a good article on the founder of Twitter this month, for more background.
