We’re in Red Queen territory, that’s for sure. First we wrote web pages, then kicked it up a notch with blogging, which turned out to not be fast enough, and now we microblog with Twitter, Jaiku and Dodgeball. It takes all the blogging you can do, to keep in the same place.

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

As new microblogging services appear, infrastructure and mashups sprout up around them like fast growing weeds. Consider Twitterment, a Twitter search engine that also does simple trend graphs and identifies the buzzy and fading terms. The weekly school vs. party trend, for examples, looks like an X with the intersection on, surprise, Friday. Twitterment results also display users’ locations on Google Maps, hourly and daily buzz charts and frequently co-occurring words.

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