Jaiku Killed My Blog

When I signed up to Jaiku, I thought it would be a neat way to filter out the many small posts from my blog. Rather, it filtered out almost ALL the posts to my blog.
It's just so much easier to post a tiny status update to Jaiku rather than writing a full blog post.
But I'm going to start getting back into it.
I'll be moving to Qld in January, and I intend to start using the blog the way I used to. I'll even try before that.
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A Benefit of Jaiku

Now that I have a Jaiku account, I can post all the little, dull things to Jaiku, saving the blog for the more interesting posts.
Jaiku will also stream my links from del.icio.us, so keep your eyes on the sidebar to the left for any interesting things I have found on the 'net.

EDIT: The del.icio.us feed doesn't seem to stream very well (it isn't posting the most recent addition), so I will have to play around with it a little more before I can be sure it works.
Also, I've lodged a feature request that the Web Badge show the source of the "presence" so that you can tell between the ones I write, and the ones that are bookmarks, photos, and blog entries.
It seems like a handy tool.

Joined Jaiku

I succumbed.
You can now see my presence on the left-hand side of my page.
It will fill with my Flickr photos, del.icio.us boomarks, and (oddly enough) my Blog posts. It will also fill with any little messages I send it.
Let's see what it's like.

To Jaiku, or not to Jaiku?

Hmmm. I've been looking at Jaiku for a few days now, and am torn whether or not I should join.
I originally saw the idea of mini-blogs with Twitter, and with the recent addition of the Twitter Web Badge for Blogger, I was tempted to use their service. However, I dismissed the idea because I can always just email in little status thingies into my blog from my phone anyway, and it doesn't cost me a cent (whereas I have to send an international SMS for Twitter to work). But since that dismissal, I keep seeing Jaiku around.
Jaiku have a S60 3rd Edition client. This means it will run on my phone and communicate with Jaiku using my phone's Internet connection, rather than international SMS. This also means there is a more powerful interface - it will update my location automatically, display who is online etc, etc all from my phone. Plus Jaiku links with things like del.icio.us and other feeds - so that's cool. So it seems a cool little service.
But I keep thinking... does it do anything that I can't do already?
Is it useful to separate little status messages from my normal Blog?
Do I really want people to know where I am?
Another question is whether the client disables itself when I leave the broadband zone - which would be expensive/annoying if it doesn't.
So. I will decide soon.

With Web 2.0 there seems to be a lot of doubling up of services. Another example of this is Facebook. I already have MySpace, and I'm barely using that anymore anyway (is that what happens when you get a girlfriend?), so will I still care enough about Facebook in 4 months time to justify signing up now.
Plus, I like my Blog - I don't want/need a MySpace Blog, nor a Facebook one - and unless Jaiku integrates well with my existing one, I doubt I will want/need one of theirs, either.
So many questions. I am overwhelmed by Web 2.0