Grok what now?

I started by trying to grok Twitter. (Don't look that up in the Urban Dictionary, by the way.) Twitter is a service for publishing micro-blogs over an RSS feed - in other words, for allowing others to subscribe to constant updates on the minutiae of your life. Why would anybody want to do that? For that matter, unless you have something specific to say, why would anybody bother to keep a blog? Digg I get, but my Facebook site is sad and unloved, and I don't have any other presence on the Intertubes. Could it be that I'm just not hip enough for the Web 2.0 room?

My last experience with trying to grok the ungrokkable was with Quicksilver for OS X. I couldn't find anybody who could explain to me what it did, but any number of people (okay, mostly just Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders) who could tell me how much it would change my life. All I could do was install it and figure out what I could make it do for me.

So that's my approach to Web 2.0. I'm going to just start using it, and see what I end up using it for. First step: a blog, second step: a Twitter account. I'll install a new hip if I have to - Web 2.0, here I come!