Pownce Isn't Working for Me

I've been experimenting with Pownce for the last few months and have decided it's not going to work for me.  I've got a blog, and I've got Twitter.  I thought there was a gap between the two that Pownce could fill nicely, but I was wrong.  I think most of what I have to say is either concise enough to fit in 140 characters or has enough meat to justify a real blog post.  So I've stopped using Pownce.

Nate challenged me and suggested that the problem could be that the Pownce client is lame or that Pownce doesn't have the hip community that Twitter has.  He's right on both points.  Twitter is dirt-simple, and desktop clients take advantage of that.  The desktop client for Pownce by comparison is cumbersome and not fun.  As for community, just look at my favorites to see I get a lot of laughs from the crowd I follow.

That said, I'm still following friends who have Pownce accounts.  None of them have full-blown blogs, and Pownce seems pretty useful for those who don't want to deal with a blog.  Microblogging has more potential and is more intimate.

After months and months I still find it hard to explain why Twitter is cool.  This video does a pretty good job, though.