Dawdlr, the Slow Social Network Alternative to Twitter

There's the slow food movement, and now there's the slow social network movement. Dawdlr is the social net for people who would rather know only the most general things about their friends about once every six months. Created by Brit web marketing geek Russell Davies (no, not the guy who does Doctor Who), Dawdler is "a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: *what are you doing, you know, more generally?" *On the new Dawdlr blog, Davies writes:

I thought it was time we had a really slow twitter. Something less rushed and immediate but still brilliantly rich and daft. I've tried to make dawdlr way slower than twitter. I reckon most people I know twitter about twice a day, so dawdlr is going to update twice a year.

To submit a dawdl send a postcard to this address:

dawdlr
77 Beak Street
London
W1F 9DB

I'll scan them in and upload and update them every 6 months. Regular as clockwork. I'm curious to see if something that slow can be 'viral' or will it just dwindle to nothing as everyone forgets last time around.
Or if it's not an immediate enough call to action to get people to participate, or if actually getting a postcard and writing on it is too much work. Or whether, maybe, it'll all work and be rather nice.

Sounds perfect to me. Twitter is way too spastic for me, and I really only have the bandwidth to handle knowing about my larger circle of acquaintences about twice a year anyway. See you on Dawdlr!

Da