new websites

I just signed up for a few new websites:

Wordpress.com – the official “hosted” site for the Wordpress blogging software. I doubt I’ll run much of a blog there, as I prefer to host my own sites – and you should too. (remind me to post WHY). Basically I NEEDED to sign up with them to get an API key for the Akismet spam blocker. I didn’t have to get my own blog on their site, but heck.. why not. Maybe I can use it to help promote / monetize my other sites.

Twitter.com – Seems to be a type of social networking site where you post (via phone, IM, or web) what you are currently doing, and your friends can then pick that up on some RSS feed…. even sent to THEIR phones… or displayed on their (or your) web pages. Looks like an interesting idea. Although might be a bit time consuming to always be posting what you’re doing. Not to mention if you post “too much”, then your friends might disown you due to spam! heh — We’ll see. For now, I’ve got a live feed showing on the left side of this blog. My page there is: http://twitter.com/rock808