Those that know me will know that I am generally two things: Verbose, and annoyed at Twitter’s 140-character limit. Mostly because I cannot say what I want to say without making multiple posts - and then it just annoys people. Me included.

Twitter really was designed for interpersonal communication. That’s what it excels at. Plurk (terrible name, IMO) was designed for status updates. Facebook Status and MySpace Status were designed for status updates too. Yet all of these things are classified as “microblogging” by the buzzword bubble that is the “social media sphere” - composed of “Web 2.0 Gurus” and “Social Marketing Experts” and other people that emphasize buzzwords over results. You surely know the type.

One of the main reasons I use Twitter is simply to keep up with the latest in the South African web sphere - especially in our own little “Silicon Valley” here in Cape Town (as Rafiq would call it :). The other reason I wanted to use Twitter was to keep a running record of thoughts and observations, from which I would extract an RSS feed, and publish it to a special section on this blog. Microblogging.

Unfortunately, Twitter is unsuited for the task. Getting anything out of the service except through the overworked API is impossible. And the signal-to-noise ratio is such that it becomes impossible to filter out what I need.

Enter nanologr. Nanologr is basically the microblogging service that I want A quick and painless posting interface, and a full-blown RSS feed that I can plug into my blog’s sidebar (for now). It has a 1024-character limit, which makes it more suitable for “micro” blog posts. And it’s got a neat color scheme, I think :)

It’s still under construction - all that still has to be done is the user dashboard, then registrations (for those that want to try it). Everything else is already in place, and I’ll have plugged my nanologr feed into my sidebar by the time you’ve read this post :)

Tags: nanologr, microblogging, nanoblogging, service, under construction