The title seems to contradict itself right? Well, there was a time last year when I wanted to compile all of my personal communications into a general timeline. I’m talkin’ email, IMs, texts messages, pictures, blogs, bookmarks, etc.
I didn’t do it. Partially because I don’t have the technical ability to do it, which is a lame excuse. And partially because after voicing the idea to a few people, privacy became a concern. Not wanting to cut my ties, or at least my digital communications with anyone, I let the idea go.
Then Twitter.com came rambling ’round the corner. It’s like IMing with no one in particular. You just post what you’re doing for the world to see. You can subscribe to friends timelines, and they yours. But it isn’t direct either way.
You can check out my twitter timeline here.
While twitter is great, you tend to mutter to yourself, what’s the point of all this? Who cares? (Turns out a lot of peolpe.) I don’t have an exact answer. It’s like instant blogging without worrying too much about content. Twitter gives you something to do when you have nothing else to do. And it’s a way of contacting a lot of people at once – without ever really trying.
Just this morning I found a similar site called Jaiku.com. Jaiku is a lot like twitter – you post what you’re currently doing and you can see what your friends or strangers are doing. The base is almost exactly like Twitter.
But Jaiku allows you to add feeds to our timeline. In my case, I added my flickr account (photos), my del.icio.us account (links), and my blog posts from here.
Very cool.