Enterprise Microblogging Enables Everyone To Participate

I heard proponents of e-mail voicing concerns of yet another information source on top of their billowing in-box. My reply goes way back into the age of book printing – since then there is more info than a person can read in a lifetime.

What looks like info overload is really filter failure (Clay Shirky).

What can we do about it?

Enter blogging – micro or at length.

Here a story. It begins with Edison. href=”http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2008/11/fan_the_flames.html” rel=”nofollow”>Four reasons to Fan the Flames with a Blog.

As Clay mentions, when considering how blogging (micro or otherwise) helps info overload, filters are the key.

With email, you don’t control what arrives in your inbox. Anyone who knows your address can send you a message which you then have to take action on: read, delete, file, ignore, etc.

With microblogging, you can decide which messages are displayed. You choose who to follow, or which topics to see, or what groups of people you’re interested in, etc.

Is there an update in you APi around the corner? Posting microblogging updates with the API is not possible at the moment, correct? Is that in works?

P.S.: I am a developer hoping to write Socialtext integration/client in Python.

Hi J. Yes, you can send Signals via our API. Here is the documentation:

http://www.socialtext.net/st-rest-docs/index.cgi?data_signals

I’d love to hear more about what you’re developing, please feel free to keep us in the loop.