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Be careful what you blog if you lin in Burma, a blogger was put in jail with a 20 year sentence for his blog.  These Burma blogger used his blog to speak out against the Burma government, something that carries a hefty jail sentence.

According to the BBC: “Nay Phone Latt was arrested in January; the sentence delivered on Monday included 15 years for offences under the Electronics Act, two years for “creating public alarm” and three and a half years for offenses under the Video Act”

Of course blogging was one of the best ways for this Burma blogger to speak out against his Government.  As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” However such an injust consequence is surely going to deter those in Burma from following similar expressions online against the Burmese Government.

What is Micro Blogging? Micro Blogging is the simplicity form of blogging, and whether you know it or not you probably already micro blog.  If you use facebook and update your status you are effectively micro blogging.

Micro Blog updates are a short sentence often 140 characters or less. As we’ve said facebook incorporates this, but also Twitter one of the most well known micro blogging systems.

At first I didn’t even understand it, for in fact micro blogging seemed a big dumb, even made no sense. Who wants to blog with only one sentence? But the trend has caught on. A lot can be said in one word, even if it is just updated what you are doing. A micro blog post could be just “went to store, gone all day” or “new movie rocks I recommend it”.

Sometimes there just doesn’t need to be much said. It’s sort of a chat about what are you doing, what you think, that is blogging, without the 300 words. People use microblogging to in fact to recommend movies, plays or other shows.

How to Micro Blog? Start by following a few twitter micro blogs and reading the conversation.  Then after getting a feel for what they are doing start your own twitter blog.  Feel free to write a short something, send a link, suggest an activity or just say your mind, as short as you like.