We’re trying an experiment here. It involves inviting readers to post their “micro-commentaries” about the ‘08 election to a page on Twitter. For those who don’t already know, Twitter is a microblogging site that is used by thousands to keep in touch with each other and share insights — some sillier than others. Why is is “microblogging”? Posts to Twitter are limited to 140 characters each. Write tight.

If you know about Twitter, I hope you can help with this; if not, maybe you’ll be moved to check it out?

This experiment is inspired by one Jeff Jarvis wrote about in his BuzzMachine blog. He calls his “TwitCrit” — micro-reviews of what you’re reading, watching, listening to, posted on Twitter by prefacing your posts with “@twitcrit.”

Same idea here. I’m interested in getting St. Louisans on Twitter to post their microcommentaries about the ‘08 election campaign (Super Tuesday’s almost here!) to our PDVoxPop page on Twitter. All you need to do is preface your post with “@pdvoxpop” and write your note.

It’ll obviously show up on your own Twitter page immediately, but until I get some better programming in place, it could take a half-hour to show up on the PDVoxPop page.

We’ll also put a feed from the PDVoxPop page on STLtoday’s politics page, once we get enough posts up there. I hope you’ll follow the PDVoxPop page either from the web or by texting “follow pdvoxpop” to 40404.

(NOTE: A variation on this post also appears on my new blog “Virtual St. Louis.”)