Craig Burton

Recently my good friend and fellow Utahn (pronounced Utah-uhn) Phil Windley declared the arrival of laconi.ca as a major breakthrough in microblogging technology. He is even toying with installing it himself at home. (Admittedly fears repercussions.)

The two main features of laconi.ca are, it is open source, and it has federated naming as an option. Federated naming a the fancy way of saying a distributed name space. Here is the thing, the laconi.ca name space is the laconi.ca namespace only. Who cares if a no-name (laconi.ca) name space is distributed or not?  Bottom line is that it is not the Twitter name space. It can only “in its dreams” conspire to become that.

What’s worse is, adding names to the laconi.ca name space is really hard. Installation of Laconi.ca is really hard. This is ridiculous.

Identi.ca has a system implemented on laconi.ca. But here is the even more bizarre thing, identi.ca is yet it’s own name space. It doesn’t federate with other Laconi.ca name spaces. You can’t integrate your name space with the identi.ca name space. How crazy is that?

I Love Twitter

With all of the downsides of Twitter, I still love it. Why? Because it has the big names already in it! Don’t you get that?

I chortle at my cohorts— @stevegillmor and @jessestay (twitter names) that are bad mouthing twitter and claiming that somehow other systems are better from some tech reason or another. The big names are already in Twitter. Ample reason to stay and stick out the growing pains.