Despite my best intentions and my inner voice crying out "microblogging is stupid!", I've been slowly sucked into it. It started innocently enough with the Facebook status. Then I joined the party over at Twitter just to see what all the hubbub was about. When I learned about identi.ca, I decided to check that out a couple days ago (more and more people are joining there now).

The problem, of course, is that not everyone is on the same social network. And you might not want to be on any of the social networks that I'm on. Or you might not trust any of those companies. Enter ping.fm. Read the rest of this entry ...