With the incredibly rapid growth of instant-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku and Stumblr, it’s understandable that not everyone has had a chance yet to figure out what exactly to use them for. In particular, not everyone using these services has developed the ability to discern what information is and is not interesting to their subscribers. I’m getting a little tired of receiving a text message every time someone feels the need to announce the flavour of the sandwich he or she is presently eating. That doesn’t mean I want to stop receiving all of your updates; some I may really need.

My solution is to take a multileveled approach to blogging. So… how much do you really want to know about me?

• “I only want to know when you post or find something really outstanding” - Your best bet is my submitted-stories feed (rss) at Digg. I tend to submit only what I consider my best posts; no need to spam every little update!
• “I’d like to subscribe to blog posts you’ve taken the time to sit down and write/edit” - Just subscribe to Skin Deep (rss).
• “I’d like to hear what you’re up to if it’s just a couple short posts a day.” - Add me on Twitter. I promise not to tweet about my lunch. You might want to subscribe to the Skin Deep feed also.
• “I’m pretending to be you; I need to know everything!” - Just about all my activity on the web ends up on my Tumblr blog. This includes
• My posts to Skin Deep and other blogs
• My photo uploads to Flickr
• Twitter updates
• My favourite music (via last.fm, as soon as I figure out how to mod the feed with Pipes)
• Screenshots of sites who’s design I find inspirational
• My YouTube videos
• Bookmarked pages (from del.icio.us)
• Stories I’ve dugg
• and on Reddit
• and DZone
• Goals on 43things
• My reviews on Gamespot and TV.com (if I ever decide there’s a point in doing such a thing)
• Movies I’m watching (Netflix)
• My event schedule on Upcoming
• and god knows what else.
• “I’m a Jaiku user.” - I signed up at Jaiku today. I don’t expect to do much direct Jaikuing, so I imported my Tumblr feed. Since Tumblr doesn’t allow for comments, you can head over to my Jaiku page to reply to anything on my tumblelog.

Each of these publishing platforms have a different angle, and all are incredibly useful and fun. The trick is to know what to combine, and what to keep separate. Nobody wants to get a text message to his mobile from Twitter every time you listen to a song in your media player, but on your last.fm or personal homepage that might be damn cool.
Lastly, if you use any of these gimme your username(s)!