The next big social networking tool is... Thunderbird?

[Phillip Mills]

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> I am experimenting with a web log, and I am finding out what a
> numbers game all of this is.

I guess there's something in that for people who want social marketing 
rather than networking.  The situation I see is people who just want to 
share their experience of living with a far-flung group of friends 
(where 'friend' is a variable position on a set of scales representing 
different areas of interest) using media that's beyond what we expect a 
list-server to handle.

I have blog-style writings on-line as well as things that aren't quite 
so volatile such as biographical and contact information of different 
types, along with photos and music.  Those are scattered over at least 
six sites at the moment, but there's nothing but information osmosis to 
clue someone who liked my pictures (for example) that I might also have 
a photography filter on another site.  Especially if it's someone who 
has stumbled over the photos, rather than a person I know in Real Life.

I seriously don't care about competitive blogging, but I'd like a more 
holistic way of organizing information than by content type and a 
better way of communicating its existence.
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