by Karri Flatla

When I finally did get on the micro blogging bandwagon (and no, I don’t count Facebook, not even the “new” one), I put my profile on pretty much all of the Twitter-ish sites I could find. Hey, why not? It’s sort of like one of those drinking games where you do a bunch of different shooters in about half and hour, realize most of them just make you want to throw up and go back to your favourite beer the following Saturday.

My favourite beer is Twitter. My favourite shooter is Ping.fm. Both have a special place in my repertoire, and I’ve not puked even once. A veteran knows how to pace herself. Here’s what works for me in the micro blogosphere, hangover free:

1) Twitter is my water cooler. (And yes, I was calling it that BEFORE Joel Comm or anyone else called it that. So there.) As such, it has a special place on my desktop via the twhirl app. Tried others. Came back to twhirl. So, I take a sip of water often throughout the day, and if I see a good conversation going on “over there,” I park myself at the water cooler for a few, give and get some advice, be entertained, gossip a little about my own life and then it’s back to work. Refreshing without feeling like I’m drowning.

2) Ping.fm is my broadcast. It’s no micro blogging tool, and it wasn’t meant to be one. It’s

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