On connecting tweets and buzzes and facebook and other social media
| Wed, 2010-02-17 07:39 — David Herron |
Yesterday I saw an interesting tweet ("Quick question: How is resilience distinct from sustainability? #green #transition #climate") and made a response ("@appropedia sustainable=long term while resilience=adaptable to change, the focus is different and not necessarily have same result?") and then he replied to my reply ("@7genblogger Thanks - good summary."). That happens all day long among tweeters.
Technorati seems to be totally futzed, no longer relavent, or at least horrible on-site navigation degrades its usefulness
| Sun, 2009-12-13 11:44 — David Herron |
Back in the day Technorati was the place to be ranked as an important or unimportant blogger. Today it seems to be to have lost its way, and the services it used to offer now seem totally useless. The straw which broke open this rant I'm writing is the ranking widget I used to display on another of my blog sites that has now been removed.
Taking a fresh look at del.icio.us (a.k.a. delicious.com)
| Fri, 2009-10-16 16:31 — David Herron |
Del.icio.us is one of the earlier social media websites which had its own 15 minutes of fame several years ago. It's fading into relative obscurity may (or may not) be a warning to upstarts like Twitter but I digress. It seems that del.icio.us has had a facelift of sorts with a bit of modernization or at least the incorporation of some (ahem) twitter support.
Speaking of which here's the setup screen for the twitter support:
Drupal as social media platform, what's needed next?
| Wed, 2009-10-07 17:32 — David Herron |
I came to the Drupal community with (to the best of my recollection) Drupal 4.6. That makes me a sort of old timer though really there was a lot of Drupal releases before my time. In the 4.6 days most extension of Drupal meant writing modules whereas you youngsters today don't know how easy you have it with Views and CCK ... What drew me to Drupal was the tagline "Community Plumbing" as I was looking for a platform with which to build online communities or what's now known as social networking. My vision is the use of online community to create positive social change.
Customized tweeting of RSS feed's with feed-aggregation-tools
| Thu, 2009-09-10 14:07 — David Herron |
There are many web applications that offer different takes on what a "power user" does with Twitter. For example feedtweet takes an RSS feed and tweets the latest entries. But what if you want to tweet the feed entries in a manner other than feedtweet's designers thought you should do? What if you do not want to hand your twitter account credentials to a third party? What if you want to have control over your own ship? Blessedly it's relatively simple to write tools for both RSS feed consumption and tweeting.
Twitterfail: Nambu (and other twitter clients) trap social connections data
| Fri, 2009-08-21 09:01 — David Herron |
My previous entry I talked about some problems with Nambu. Twitterfail: twitter.com website, alternative clients, Nambu crashing At the end of that I came to a core problem with Nambu and other social networking applications. They entrap you into using their app by trapping the social connections data you've entered into that application.
Twitterfail: twitter.com website, alternative clients, Nambu crashing
| Fri, 2009-08-21 08:46 — David Herron |
I've been happily using the Nambu twitter client for Mac OS X. After following a few people, and setting up a few accounts, it seemed clear using the twitter website was not very usable. It may be usable if you have one account but as soon as you set up multiple accounts it becomes very hard very quick.
Twitterfail: multiple accounts, same message
| Sat, 2009-08-08 14:28 — David Herron |
The latest observed twitterfail was a blatant form of multiple accounts posting the same message. There are many ways to do this, I just happen to be unlucky enough to be following two accounts engaging in this practice.
NOTE: Rather than use twitter.com I use a twitter client (Nambu) which means the messages are shown as they would on twitter.com. In any case see how two accounts are speaking the same message one right after another. See it once and it might be a coincidence .. but ..
Twitterfail: @usedcarsuk
| Wed, 2009-07-22 12:35 — David Herron |
A new twitter account began following one of my twitter accounts, and the presentation is so amusing it's causing me to launch a series of blog posts: Twitterfail
The first entrant for everyones perusement is: @usedcarsuk
First off, did they not run this through a pronunciation test? Or did they simply do SEO analysis and find that Used Cars UK is a frequently searched-for term? Did they not consider the meaning of the "suk" that's embedded in their name?
Give a hoot on twitterville - A look at hootsuite
| Tue, 2009-06-30 21:15 — David Herron |
Hootsuite is the home of the ow.ly links and the little linkbar that goes with them. It's a web application which adds useful functions to the twitter user experience. It's not so strong however on automation like auto-follow.
