Developer, UI designer & writer Damien Sowers has come up with a new blog platform called Kaia, which he calls a place for your thoughts.

The basic concept is that Kaia is supposed to bridge the divide between micro-blogging & traditional blogging platforms.

Sowers explains that the world is likely missing out on a lot of interesting thoughts & ideas because they don’t fit either platform. What do you do, he asks, with a thought that’s too big for a 140-character tweet but too small for a 400-word blog post?

The only choice you have is either to abandon the thought or fill the piece up with fluff & make it bloated to fill the expected word count.

If we feel guilty for being terse with our writing, you know there’s something wrong with the tools available to us if we feel guilty for being terse with our writing,according to Sowers.

Which is why the creator of Silvrback has now come up with Kaia, which lets you create individual thought pages to which you can add video & image headers.

You can select a global image/video such as your profile image that you want to use on every thought, which makes moot the bothersome hassle of finding an image or video for every post.  Of course, you can add a unique image or video to a thought if you want to.

In fact, you can create a Kaia thought by embedding a cluster of full-width images & adding a couple of lines as a caption or to summarize what you see in the images.

No doubt all this can be done with any blog platform, & you can read the individual thought pages on Kaia just like a blog.  But it’s intended to be read by your followers aka thought subscribers as a feed & is integrated into Twitter to allow for sharing. There’s also a propagate button that lets you spread a thought to your followers.

A thought that gets propagated & liked ends up on the “Best of Kaia” feed, which will give the thought a lot more exposure. The feed is customizable to allow for segmentation from the main feed & creation of smart lists.

Kaia, like the Svbtle-inspired Silvrback, has presumably been created to offer the world what the South Lake Tahoe, Calif.-based Sowers himself is looking for in a blogging platform. Kaia is currently available only to invited bloggers.

Image Credit: Kaia

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