Jottings on the Go

Got me this notion of writing a thing using this shiny-new mobile I'm tipping about in my hand so it catches the light just right. Sure, not a new idea: using a cell phone’s techno-nifties, creating short somethings, such as all those video bits and photo albums incessantly posted to YouTube, MySpace, blogs, and even news providers. Thought I heard someone made a movie using one of these.

And just an idea for now, this Jottings on the Go. Needs researching. The 140-character message limit certain to severely hobble things, if it's Ulysses, wandering the town. Well, maybe not a novel, then ... unless some novel kinda novel, told in one hundred and forty character installments. Hmm, right, at fifteen cents per chapter.

And then there's the language to choose. Standard English? - nyet, and not even if only the essential most concisely picked - certainly not compact enough. Nor enuf. Not even in same dialect as that shortened enuf. Not in weird, as in uncommon abbreviations, perhaps only confusing. Logically, the most must be said with less: every word where it can doing multiple duty, for the meaning and the emotion it might possibly convey. The compressed thing prob'ly best told in a compressed language, such as this Text-Chat-Shorthand ... uh,I.M. currently all the bee's knees, especially with the young’uns.

Dug out a yellowing print-up of a Chatters' Dictionary from 2001. Tho...[Hah! as in Although], quick googling has already returned a promising couple of more modern Texting and Instant Messaging info-sites. So, it's back to school for me!