Apparently when I was attempting to adjust my blog settings a couple months ago because of all the spam, I apparently also turned off the abililty for people to comment. Luckily I didn’t start blogging regularly again until this month! So I was able to go back and re-enable comments.

You should be able to comment now, you know, if you really want to.

Just a little backdrop so you can get the joke since you’re not all geeks like me: So there’s been a lot of talk in the web marketing world lately that short, direct, to-the-point marketing is not as effective online as it is in real life. Interestingly enough, the medium that people turn to for quick, fast, predigested information is the place where they expect to most be inundated with information overload before they’ll plunk down their cash. These days, it’s long copy writing that is the cat’s meow.

So mix the need for lots of coherent words that will inspire people to part with their fundage with no sleep and a fateful car ride, and what do you get? Something I might enjoy just a little too much.

Maybe I need sleep before I encounter a fateful car ride of my own.

This is SOOOOO getting put onto a site I do somewhere, sometime soon!

Scrollovers.

SWEET!!!

The service I raved about yesterday, which allows me to make blog posts from my cell phone, has a 140-character limit. Text Messaging, technically called SMS, does stand for Short Messaging System so that is reasonable enough.

I bring it up again, though, to clarify that in order to keep with the intended purpose of Twitter, most of those posts will be in the form of an answer to the question which is the basis of the service. Namely, to ask: “What are you doing?”. So my tweets will be saying something about what I’m doing. So if you wonder why the hell I’m posting random stuff like that, that’s why. Because it’s cool . (And it keeps my blog fresh, but whatever.)

Also of note is the fact that being a text message, the title is created from the beginning words of the text message. I’d write a proper title first, but then I’d be screwing myself out of those characters which are already in short supply.

So just a couple notes to make in case anyone is confused. HTH.

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Now listening to: Ne-Yo - So Sick

I’m stunned. This is the best technology ever!

I completely stumbled across this new program the other day, which puts SMS (text messaging) on freakin’ steriods. It’s called Twitter. It’s awesome enough on it’s own, if you’re into that sort of thing, and how I stumbled on it was that it was utilized for extending another program that I had stumbled on (Launchy).

Basically Twitter is a way to bulk SMS (or email) your friends (and others who are following you). You update, it sends it out- via email or SMS (or none), depending on the follower’s preference. And then ppl can reply, too. It also allows you to message privately. Coolness.

So I’m checking it out and as if that weren’t enough, I see that there is a plug-in for the blogging software I use on this here site. I install it easy-as-pie, and whoa! There’s all my “tweets”! All the text messages I have sent to (/through) Twitter! Showing up as blog posts!

WHOA.

I mean, this is especially fabulous because I never did get the “post via email” thing working right. And now I don’t even have to worry about opening up any programs, getting to the computer, or anything of the sort! I just pick up my new (to me a few months ago) little Treo I got, with it’s little Qwerty keyboard, and can blog whenever! Wherever! Don’t have to remember anything for later, don’t have to log in, or do anything besides speak my mind.

Get ready to check in with me a little more regularly

Oh, yeah.