I suppose it was a little foolish to think I would step up and leave my current habits and post mp3s here. For a good amount of time I’ve been posting random mp3s with some others on Pownce and for now that’s where it’ll keep happening. I don’t have to worry about legal issues and I’m not obligated to make any posting anything more than a couple sentences, the track info, and the file. I just wrote a short entry summarizing my position on Pownce.

If you’re interested in receiving these random mp3 postings please add me as a friend on Pownce.

Pownce (me) is an interesting application because it doesn’t have or really in any way (in my observation) try to compete with the ubiquitous input that twitter has but still tries to capture that need for messaging small bits of information with friends.

I don’t see it’s usefulness as a text/event messaging platform just because it doesn’t exist in the “always on” environments that something like twitter does or even other apps with a mobile presence (pownce doesn’t have one) but instead as a platform for sharing files and little bits of information that need (important) to be private for some reason (meaning only viewable among friends) and viewable at any time interval even up to several weeks between visits.

I currently use Pownce solely as a file transfer mechanism to transfer files, mostly music, that I’d like my friends to have or see in a protected environment but don’t really matter.

The problem is that you can’t see messages that you post privately to your friends from before you defined that relationship in their application which is too bad for the use I have for the site.