Thanks to Doug Adams’ script, Current Track to Twitter v1.5, if you follow me via Twitter you’ll get continual updates on what I’m listening to.
I’m digging Twitter as way to automatically publish in the background. I can keep my flow and we can stay connected.
I see this quality that’ll keep Twitter from being Pet Rock 2.0. If more and more people can ‘tweet’ without thinking about it (via the API, not the browser) Twitter fades into the background, like the internet itself.
“Please do not overdo it, nobody wants to read about every single track you hear. “
Really? I thought that’s what Twitter was all about. Oh well. 🙂
After reading LifeHacker’s excellent Beginners Guide to Quicksilver I thought I’d try somethings I haven’t asked Quicksilver to do before. Like shell scripts.
I know I’ve got one lying around – here’s one – my backup script.
Bad idea.
Quicksilver is unresponsive while the script is running and completely ignores my increasingly frantic key invocations. Forcing me to actually use the dock and Finder. Blah.
I noticed this briefly when I was playing around with adding Twitter support to qspress. In the end, I decided to use Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin because the Quicksilver (via qspress) -> WordPress -> (via Twitter Tools) Twitter publishing flow made more sense than sending to WordPress & Twitter simultaneously.
Mark your calendars, on April 16th, Peter Fleck and I will be on a panel with TCDailyPlanet‘s Executive Director – Jeremy Iggers, and the U’s Christina Lopez talking about how ubiquitous internet access will change community news.
More info: Wireless Cities Conference, looks like it’s $75 for U students and staff, and $175 for the rest of us.
Many thanks to Peter for presenting the idea and collaborating on the pitch.
LATER:
I’ve been cruising the archives to refresh my memory on the things I’ve written on this subject:
Peter recommended relistening to the recent Public Media recordings:
LATER:
Peter’s post.
12 April 2007
First pass at my presentation: Garrick-WirelessCities-Presentation.pdf [5mb]
Trawlr. Another browser-based, Rails-built, RSS reader thingy. As I await my opml import (tick….tock…tick…tock), I’m not impressed. Confirming there’s lots of work to do in RSS land. Yes, I’ve got horse in the race….but only ’cause I haven’t found another horse worth betting on. 😉
It’s a beautiful day. Blue skies. The Dashboard widget says 77°F. Our home weather station says 80°F. That aggregation project I’ve been working on since last fall is coming along nicely. Some big, pleasant surprises this morning. Still miles to go, but it’s fulfilling the vision – even at this early stage. Yes, it’s still my only aggregator. The hardest thing about making the switch – breaking the habit of launching NNW.
“The point I was making is that we are not happy with advertising right now.” – Andrew Baron
If anyone was going to figure advertising-on-serial-media out, I was sure Andrew would. Not that I think it makes sense or is even a good idea.
From my post on the Ze Frank / RocketBoom geek fight last October:
That said, I think the RocketBoom team has already figured out how to make money with their daily video blog. The same way I make money from this blog and the First Crack Podcast:
Now, I’m not doing work for Nokia or John Edwards, but, on a blog, the author is the advertisement still stands. 😉
ELSEWHERE:
Maybe that’s the real reason advertisers aren’t excited about podcasting.
The windows are open in the house, I roasted a couple batches of coffee, and the neighborhood kids are playing football in the street. Spring is here. 52°F
I’m doing some blog consolidation (“finally”, I can hear you say). I’ve been trying out WordPress’ new import feature.
It hung, stalled, or timed out every time, either on initial import or on Step 2 when I assign the post author.
After peaking into the WXRSS file, I noticed all my comments were in there (yeah!) including the spam (booo!). After I deleted the spam, re-exported, and re-imported, everything worked slick as can be.