Photo by Milen Dimov, Used with permission’Twas a year ago today that I started using Twitter and Facebook. I kicked it off with a test message to see if I got my twitter missives automatically being sent to Facebook properly. Hardly an auspicious start. I was not an early adopter of social networking tech, and at first blush, you can’t blame me. Do I really want to read 140 character messages of what people had for breakfast and their progress on the house work? Fortunately I found it wasn’t all asinine ephemera. Read more »

Today I mentioned that I’d started posting my micro-blog messages to Identi.ca, which pushed to Twitter, which pushed to Facebook. A non-techie asked me what I was talking about, so here is the explanation I sent:

Identi.ca is a microblogging service like Twitter, but based on open source software.

The pickings are pretty slim. I want something that can:

• At least lay out messages in columns. Being able to have columns of tabs would be a bonus.

• Be able to resize the columns. Tweetdeck is limited as to the number of columns you can have in practise by with width of your screen. Seesmic Desktop is almost there, but not quite.

Came across a cute little site today called Follow Cost which calculates “how annoying it will be” to follow someone on Twitter. Naturally, the first thing I wanted to do was see what the cost of following Follow Cost would be. Here was my result:

Sorry, but the user followcost was not found on Twitter.

Opps. Gotta love the irony.