Poor Little Rich Blog
May 31st, 2007First a promise I need to make to myself -
“I shall write here more often, God-willing.
Little blogs, mo-blogs, one-line posts, twitters or jaikus, call them what you want, but the world seems to have taken a liking towards this brand new way of saying thoughts into condensed sentences. The words here do not flow into streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent (that’s an Eliot line). It’s short and it’s sweet (at least in thought).
Webaroo (that’s where I work), has started a similar service. Though the service is currently available only for the Indian market, it still has a better way to reach its users. There is no sign-up required either to create a group or to read the content. SMS GupShup is what it is called and the blogs are called groups. The term blogs is still not as widely known or accepted in India.
I have been on SMS GupShup with my CityHaikus group. And its good to see that I have 52 subscribers, much more than the number who read this blog. Just shows that people love to consume in small packets. The service definitely has a future. It just needs to be built well and with a lot of thought.
Here’s a widget that contains some of my posts on the CityHaikus SMS GupShup group as well as some of the groups that I love and follow.
The widget is created by thakkar, some really hard and cool work. Its cool, but too much branding on it 
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:03 am
As attention spans become shorter and the perceived availability of time decreases, people are much more willing to opt for quick information. Brief tidbits on their own may not mean much, but multiple short messages can collect to valuable information. On one hand, we may be doing ourselves a disservice by avoiding longer articles. On the other hand, we may be taking in other information that we ordinarily would not. It’s interesting the way technology continues to make information easier to obtain, in smaller doses.