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Monday, June 22, 2009

A Local and Private Microblog using Laconica

Staying up-to-date to your friends' activities can be so easy today with microblog services like Twitter and Plurk. A microblog is quite similar to a weblog except that users enter their entries in at most 140 characters. It forces users to write shortly but often. These services allow users to share multimedia clips and Internet sites easily. Although community interactions using these services can be useful and fun, some people prefer to blog privately (perhaps they tend to express easily and openly). While users are given the choice to make their timelines or pages entirely private, having a local, offline, and private microblog in your own PC is another option.