I totally don't get twitter. It sounds sooo dumb. But I've been trying it out for a couple of days and am starting to like it. It seems like kind of a happy medium between instant messaging and blogging. Kind of like multi-cast, one-way, instant messaging. No long articles, so I don't mind getting alerted (by my IM client) that someone I am following just posted something.

It works really well from my phone...not texting (not part of my plan) but m.twitter.com works great on my mobile browser. I even posted from the car yesterday - not driving of course...well, sort of driving...it was a red light. That's not a crime is it?

I am on the lookout for a really good client for the dash or other smartphone. The API looks really simple, so I could build one if I was sufficiently motivated. I want something that polls (so I don't need to run an IM client), notifies, and let's me post over http. Maybe just mailto my dasBlog weblog is better? Then I could post pictures and recordings even.

On parenthacks recently, they talked about using twitter to record stuff about babies. That's what got me interested in this. Julie did an amazing job at keeping scrapbooks for the first 5 years of Allie's life and is fond of saying that I'm next up to bat. She's set an awfully high bar, so I am going to need all the assistance I can get from my good friend technology. I can see me 1 year from now, chasing a baby around with my dash trying to catch first words or steps and posting them somewhere for posterity and sharing.

Nobody reads my twitter. If you've ever had an IM conversation with me before, or are really, really bored (I am a pretty boring person) you can follow my twitter feed at http://twitter.com/cbilson (there's a link over there on the left of this blog somewhere too.) I will try and twitter anything of interest that happens to me, while staying out of trouble.