An article in the SPIEGEL ONLINE tells the story of an Argentinean writer, Ricardo Coler, who decided to find out how a matriarchy really work and spent two months with the Mosuo in southern China. 

“Men live better where women are in charge: you are responsible for almost nothing, you work much less and you spend the whole day with your friends. You’re with a different woman every night. And on top of that, you can always live at your mother’s house.”

Who is reading a personal blog anymore?

I mean, with facebook and services like twitter all posts are delivered so convenient to you so why go and look around at different websites if anything has been posted?

Subscribing to feeds are still to technical and mainly for nerds (like me). Starting to use my blog again I realised: why so many different platforms and why is twitter segmented into “microblogging”? Of course, first twitter was supposed to be based on cellphones and therefore the limitation on characters, but today I almost dare to claim it is not the main usage. Most of my “friends” are posting links and news from other sites, not really the “what are you doing?” thing that you share from your cellphone. And with the huge amount of friends, who want to have all those posts sent to your cellphone?

So why cant blogging be like twitter? That you only press “Follow” and then you get that persons postings. Instead you have to chose RSS or Atom and what software to use to subscribe to the blogs feed etc etc…A perfect example of a solution made by an engineer without adoption in mind