Twitter
Scribkin
As the new year starts, I am increasingly thinking of changing my follow habits that I have maintained since I first logged in on Twitter and FriendFeed.
Mutual Respect
My attitude was, mutual respect. You follow me, I follow you. I can learn from everyone. I still think it’s a good attitude to have, and I wish it was the right one. But increasingly, especially on Twitter, I don’t think it is.
I’m going to rant a bit here, just warning you.
For months, I have been using FriendFeed and Twitter actively. At the beginning, I followed anyone who looked interesting and didn’t care about who followed me back. I maintained what I thought of as a fairly altruistic policy toward both services, just concerning myself with finding great people.
I came across a quick post from Benjamin Golub in his blog about SUP (no Wikipedia page yet, anyone want to write one?), a protocol developed by FriendFeed and described in their blog.
Benjamin created a small YouTube video showing how SUP works.
Benjamin Golub demonstrates SUP
So naturally, I now have a bit of SUP-envy, since I run a WordPress blog and not my own home made cloud-based blog platform like Ben. Which means my next step was to perform a Google search for ‘WordPress’ and ‘SUP’. To my great surprise, a small SUP plugin has already been written!
Enter WP SUP, a small plugin that does exactly what’s necessary, which is to say add a bit of code to the RSS feed to make it SUP-enabled, and ping FriendFeed when the feed is updated.
I installed the MediaRSS WordPress plugin today. Hopefully that will mean that the picture that I included will show up in FriendFeed and other places that support Media RSS extensions.
Media RSS extensions allow one to describe different types of media, such as embedded music and video clips, directly in an RSS stream. These extensions are technically optional, so traditional RSS parsers can safely ignore them.
flipside.scribkin
Footsteps in the snow: The many footsteps of the visitors to Tulcea’s monument hill are visible in the foreground. It’s late afternoon and the sun is low over the horizon. The Danube River is just off to the right.
The port of Tulcea: Taken on a cold winter night. The quay and the Danube River are visible toward the top of the photo.
ginzuna:
qiring:
hibariya:
konishiroku:
proto-jp:
t-s-k-b:
Pixdaus, page 23 of best today photos
Scribkin's Favorite Links from Diigo
Drag and drop your taskbar buttons and system tray icons to instantly reorder them. No need to get all nervous when a program crashes or if you need to reboot; you can reorder your programs exactly as they were. Version 2.2 includes an option to rearrange your tray icons, Vista support, and doesn't store settings in registry anymore.
Tags: reference software utility freeware windows
Posted by: scribkin
eng1ne's Comments Feed
First thanks for the thoughtful reply, Dave.
The situation you describe is reasonable, and one I don't think anyone should really take offense at. And I may actually be guilty of labeling people with a lot of followers who follow/un-follow me quickly as gamers instead of people who decided I had too many FriendFeed links in my Twitter stream, etc.
But the bottom line is that, at least for me, I need to un-couple the activities of people following me with my own activities on Twitter. The two shouldn't have a direct relationship. And when I re-visit who I *want* to follow, I will also throw away any expectations of them following me back, or following people who follow me.
Hutch - the reason I used Bob instead of some jackoff enterepreneur-type is because he is really trying to present a 'normal guy' front both on Twitter and on the blog. But from what I can tell, he is far from it. He's gaming.
Read more comments by eng1ne
I hope I don't accidentally un-follow folks that are actively engaged with me and my blog. As for saying hi.. HI! But this is exactly my point -- I want to be able to be MORE responsive to those people I follow. And I know the path for doing that is following the folks I find really interesting and who engage me in conversation and ideas.
So in other words, I intend to dedicate more of my attention to (perhaps fewer) people based more on what I find interesting and compelling about them, rather than a somewhat arbitrary rule of you-follow-me, I-follow-you.
Read more comments by eng1ne
digg / eng1ne / history
Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. This post touches upon 40 key elements to aid your success.
Twitter phishing website which is right now talk of the town...beware....and if you already a victim then change ur password this is the only way right now...
Some Good Predictions for 2009 In the World of Technology.
Phil Glockner's shared items in Google Reader
Who really owned the comments... the original poster or the aggregation site that "stole them away" was one of the biggest small-time blog wars on the Web in 2008. Whether bloggers were complaining about seeing comments and conversation moved from their blog and instead taking place on FriendFeed, Socialmedian or Shyftr, or debating whether they could trust comments in the cloud, it became clear that the only consensus was that there would be no consensus. You either embraced the new tools, or you yelled loudly against them. Today, an interesting tool via Disqus has let bloggers effectively synchronize comments between their blogs and the popular FriendFeed service, meaning people can comment in either place, and see it end up as part of the conversation - wherever it is.And guess what? We've already implemented it on this blog for louisgray.com.
Set up your API key on both services...
Milano Santa Monica is a lush green super city that is scheduled to sprout up just outside of Milan. Envisioned as a stacked series of high-rises overflowing with flowering terraces, the self-contained development will employ principles of bio-architecture in addition to photovoltaic panels and solar-thermal water heaters to cut down on energy use.
(more…)