Nate Westheimer on Twitter and Twitter/clones/open sources:
If you think Twitter-style communication is a new form of communication (I do); and if you think that it’s a form of communication which will stick around for a while (I do); and you think distributed, open systems are generally more durable than even the most API friendly centralized services (I do); then, your mind can quickly become attracted to the implications of a platform like Laconica.
Interesting thought … don’t know if I agree with a world of dozens/thousands of micro-communications sites, but nonetheless … .
