I really like Twitter and what it offers, but they’ve been getting on my nerves lately. IMs have been getting dropped, service has been erratic, and the lag time in sending tweets or checking my own Twitter page makes me think I’m on dial-up again. When it does work I love it, since it provides an cool alternative for sideblogging/asides, a relatively new phenomenon where bloggers post mini-entries or short notes in a sidebar rather than in a normal blog entry. This feature helps prevent me from cluttering up my blog with short, inane entries of what I happen to be doing or thinking of at the moment, and instead relegates it to a small block on my sidebar (see top right). It also means I can fire off a message from IM or my cell phone without the need to actually go on the web if I want to post a little note on my blog. Muy coolio.