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Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Gerry — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:21:30 -0000

Great tip.

Will have to check this one out!

Another one to check out !

Geeezzz - where does the time go?

Regards,

Gerry.
http://www.increaseweb-site...

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

AlexSchleber — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:23:51 -0000

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.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Anna — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:55:55 -0000

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

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:08:34 -0000

Wicked, love this.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Anand — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:23:15 -0000

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"!

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

kovshenin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:41:23 -0000

Looks like a good idea. I got my Twitter feeds on mine.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

James Spratt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:33:21 -0000

On first looks this plugin sounds cool, but it kind of devalues the content your blog has. I've been using

Evan Sims' Friendfeed Activity Widget:
http://evansims.com/project...

and

Alex King's Twittertools:
http://alexking.org/project...

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.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Susan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:49:55 -0000

This is awesome - I'll definitely need to look into implementing this onto one of my sites.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Zee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:07:38 -0000

Had to look twice there wondering who that handsome fella in your screenshot was! :P

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:50:18 -0000

This nice plugin is included in my Top 60 incredibly useful Wordpress plugins to power up your blog

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Evan W. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:18:38 -0000

Wow groovy plugin! I'm going to check that out!

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Kim Doyal — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:44:40 -0000

I have just found this site in the last month and have gotten SO much great
info. and useful resources.
Am using one app already, will look into this!

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

Goodmars — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:24:29 -0000

A plug in worth using!
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Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

John Lynn — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:41 -0000

I use Twitter tools (http://alexking.org/project... 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.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

bdewberry — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:00 -0000

Interesting plugin. I may have to give it a spin to check it out.

Re: Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed

pnw fitness — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:19:00 -0000

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.