I’m not quite sure what to make of Pownce, the latest entrant into the twittering micro-blogging and stream-of-consciousness field.

Since signing up a few days ago (thanks again, pierro, for the invitation), I’ve probably spent 20 minutes with it before calling a halt. Too much overload, something Dan York describes pretty well.

It certainly offers a lot more than Twitter and Jaiku do. Sending photos, music, docs, links, etc, to your friends, for instance. I’ve not made the jump to that level of usage yet – quite happy with simply posting short comments and connecting with others who do the same.

So it’s hard to see a future for me with Pownce. I’m sticking with TwitKu for now – so I can post to both Twitter and Jaiku at once or choose one or the other – plus TwitterMail for getting notifications of direct private messages.

That’s not to say Pownce itself doesn’t have a future. I’m certain it does as this embryonic market for stream-of-consciousness communication mushrooms.