Twitter Didn't Satisfy Me

My first choice of blog (o.k. micro-blog) was twitter, but after a week on twitter I decided that a traditional blog works better. Here's why:

I actually want comments
Twitter seems to be just a bunch of people blathering into space (some with good links btw), so it is good for status updates to people following you, but it is not a good means of two way communications. I think a good paper comes from dialog, and twitter fails to do that.

Twitter doesn't let you search(or edit) what you posted.
This is a real problem since for all I know, my professor for this class is reading a blog with a bunch of spelling errors. Also since I started following two people, my own posts get buried quickly and I can't find what I wrote a few days ago (at least not easily).

I know a lot of this stuff can be done through the Twitter API (possibly a future business idea), but right now I just don't have time to make a decent client for it.


Blogspot lets you post by SMS as well
For some reason, I didn't think that a blog could be posted to by SMS, so I was pleasently surprised when this option came up on my blogspot signup. I sometimes get ideas in pretty strange places, and I have a 25 dollar a month data plan to justify. So, for me, this is a killer feature.