Cool thanks. I'll try it out. Might be just what I was looking for at the moment!
P.S. Narrow the comment box on this blog. The stylesheet is hiding text when you tytpe.
Bryan
· 9 months ago
Interesting plugin. I may have to give it a spin to check it out.
John Lynn
· 9 months ago
I use Twitter tools (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress) to do this. I just added it a few days ago and I agree that it seems like a good way to keep my blog fresh and utilize my Tweets for something of value. We'll see how my readers respond. Especially when I have a huge day of tweets.
Alex Schleber
· 9 months ago
I tried this too for a while, but it was just too disjointed to be of real value to people. And to import from FriendFeed in the way described (a sidebar widget has been doable for a long time) doesn't seem to help much. Especially since the majority of FF content still comes from Twitter.
Nonetheless, figuring out ways to make all sorts of Social Media activity, that, while useful and increasingly inevitable/necessary, does take time away from writing "old-fashioned" blog posts, is a key concern:
For a while I played with the idea of adjusting Twitter Tools "Digest" feature to create more intelligent short posts on the fly using hashtags (e.g. #s for start, #e for end, #t for title, etc.), but the reality is that moost of your Twitter followers would not take too well to such extended soliloquy.
So the problem remains, one idea I have seen is the integration of a mini-blog like Tumblr or Posterous into the main blog as shown in this example http://longtail.com under "Tidbits". Pretty smart, and I might try this out myself.
One thing that greatly disappointed me as Google's recent announcement that they were shuttering GoogleNotebooks for the most part. In my view a big mistake, since some version of this form of quick capture (some of the other similar bookmarklets tend to be somewhat slow by comparison) if integrated more fully with other properties (Blogger comes to mind...), could have stolen the show.
So I'd say the race for the ideal short/rapid publishing platform is still on. Twitter and FriendFeed mentions seem from their length constraints more apt to be used as a form of commenting, as in the "social comments" system you guys just launched.
I don't think every online action of mine should be blogged in full, I get disillusioned by overactive blogs.
kovshenin
· 9 months ago
Looks like a good idea. I got my Twitter feeds on mine.
Anand
· 9 months ago
If you have "thrown yourself" into the microblogging craze, why would you kill your users with such worthless content.
And by the way, the post should have started with "Few of us" and not "Most of us"!
Jonathan
· 9 months ago
Wicked, love this.
Anna
· 9 months ago
Hi there! What's the difference b/t wordpress.org and .com? Im really confused, because I cannot find plug-ins in my .com BLOG
Bob Hitching
· 9 months ago
Jennifer: thanks for the post! Your option to save imported posts as Draft is now in the latest version of the plugin, plus some other little extras. Details on WordPress.org
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P.S. Narrow the comment box on this blog. The stylesheet is hiding text when you tytpe.
Nonetheless, figuring out ways to make all sorts of Social Media activity, that, while useful and increasingly inevitable/necessary, does take time away from writing "old-fashioned" blog posts, is a key concern:
For a while I played with the idea of adjusting Twitter Tools "Digest" feature to create more intelligent short posts on the fly using hashtags (e.g. #s for start, #e for end, #t for title, etc.), but the reality is that moost of your Twitter followers would not take too well to such extended soliloquy.
So the problem remains, one idea I have seen is the integration of a mini-blog like Tumblr or Posterous into the main blog as shown in this example http://longtail.com under "Tidbits". Pretty smart, and I might try this out myself.
One thing that greatly disappointed me as Google's recent announcement that they were shuttering GoogleNotebooks for the most part. In my view a big mistake, since some version of this form of quick capture (some of the other similar bookmarklets tend to be somewhat slow by comparison) if integrated more fully with other properties (Blogger comes to mind...), could have stolen the show.
So I'd say the race for the ideal short/rapid publishing platform is still on. Twitter and FriendFeed mentions seem from their length constraints more apt to be used as a form of commenting, as in the "social comments" system you guys just launched.
http://tr.im/gk8j
info. and useful resources.
Am using one app already, will look into this!
Evan Sims' Friendfeed Activity Widget:
http://evansims.com/projects/friendfeed_activit...
and
Alex King's Twittertools:
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
I use these to place my FF activity in a sidebar and Twittertools for a weekly digest of my Tweets. See them in action here:
http://jamesspratt.org/blog
I don't think every online action of mine should be blogged in full, I get disillusioned by overactive blogs.
And by the way, the post should have started with "Few of us" and not "Most of us"!
What's the difference b/t wordpress.org and .com?
Im really confused, because I cannot find plug-ins in my .com BLOG
now in the latest version of the plugin, plus some other little extras.
Details on WordPress.org
Will have to check this one out!
Another one to check out !
Geeezzz - where does the time go?
Regards,
Gerry.
http://www.increaseweb-sitetraffic.com/