I heard the buzz about Twitter for a while (http://twitter.com//) and thought “holy smokes, who would want to log every little thing they do so that other folks can see?” So I ignored it, but I kept asking myself “could that be useful for anything?” And then I realized what I was missing, it can be an awesome communication tool because it takes advantage of RSS. Meaning I can feed it to my site, friends and family can subscribe however they want (Yahoo or Google personalized pages). I can control who sees what and of course, I don’t have to log everything (yes, there are folks that let the world know when they are going to the bathroom). What I can log is last minute rides or party details or running late, etc. – blurbs that might be useful for some. It can be a very useful communication tool indeed.

Another cool tool I discovered that happens to work well with Word Press (and other blogs) and Twitter, is a tool called Jott. (http://jott.com/default.aspx) Jott converts text to speech, in a surprisingly accurate format, and it’s based on cell phone call! Meaning, I can call from anywhere and get what I am saying converted to text (no cumbersome software on the PC!) and I can configure Jott (quite easily actually) to send that Text to my blog or to Twitter (and many other applications – simplest being email). So I could call Jott and tell it to tell Word Press that I just got back from a great ride, or even I AM ON a great ride and a few other things about the ride and it will post it to my site. I can call Jott and tell it to tell Twitter that I just rode 10 miles and then later use those Twitters to calculate my mileage.

And on my job I am thinking of all sorts of ways that I can use both of these tools.

Anyone using them? If so, how? If not, give them a try and let me know.