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Another twitter update plugin test
Wondering if, now that the plugin has been configured, if it is going to falsely post to twitter that I have edited a post before I’ve even published the darned thing!
Twitter Updater test post
Now testing the twitter updater plugin.
Disqus Test
Testing to see how the disqus comments look on the site.
Twitter is broken. Thanks @JamesKirk
Has twitter always had the “blog this” option right from their web pages? I thought at one point I had added a GreaseMonkey script that would allow that to happen.
Anyway, this image was captured by our friend Will Norris, just to show his gratitude at my tweet of exactly 140 characters. Unfortunately, most of those characters were not broken by spaces, causing any page that my tweet showed up on to be jacked all to hell!
Taking bets on how long it takes the great folks at Twitter to fix this with an overflow: hidden in their css (or some other equally groovy solution)
Geesh, and I was just trying to be me. At least I’m not known as Glitch, hey Joseph?
Posting from Ubuntu 8.04 Linux trial
Thought I’d burn the latest Ubuntu 
version (8.04) and see how it panned out on the new-ish computer I built a couple of months ago. Like most really “wannabe” tech geeks, I’ve messed with Linux installs over the years, and have just never been able (willing?) to go the full monty and just learn to live in a Linux world.
Initially, a lot of that had to do with Microsoft products. Much, much less so now days. In fact, other than using XP Media Center (though I’ve yet to do any media using with it! Go figure) and the ubiquitous Internet Explorer (only for web development, I PROMISE!) the only bit of MS software I’ve used of late, and really enjoyed, was Windows Movie Maker.
The bigger picture, I imagine, is all the software goodies that we tend to use based upon the operating system we employ. My forays into Linux in the past have yielded much confusion and angst regarding not only finding software to do a job (yes, I realize there is TONS and TONS of good Linux/Open Source stuff out there, give a guy a break!) but more importantly, to installing it. You tend to learn a lot when you start your annual (tri-annual for me) Linux experiments. You learn until you get tired of learning to use the tool instead of actually productively using the tools.
Already, I’m unsure about this install. Yes, Firefox came with the install. Yay! And I ran through a bunch of extra applications I’d like (and a bunch of games I’d not like), only to find that when the OS finished and required a reboot to finalize (not unheard of) when I came back up, everything that I thought I had installed was not installed. For some reason the installation doesn’t seem to finish all the way at boot up, and I’m forced to “quit” (which is a bit confusing with “cancel” but hey, what do I know?!)
The other disappointing aspect of this “trial” is that it installed almost the entire disc on one of my drives in order to allow me the luxury of checking out Ubuntu on this computer without wiping off the XP install. I’m cool with that, though.
Oh, another disappointment is the fact that I’m not able to get my two widescreen monitors to work during this trial. The OS clearly tells me it sees the second video card, and attempting to activate it required a reboot. And guess what, yupper, it reverts back to the fresh trial install. Again, no big deal, but I’d have severe reservations about transforming this machine to all Linux before knowing “for sure” that I was going to be able to use both flat panels.
What I am seriously considering, however, is going ahead and wiping my 17″ widescreen laptop and putting this install of Linux on it. That might be fun, and I really don’t depend upon the laptop now days except when I decide to go to Jerona, one of the few (if not only) Internet cafes here in Cottonwood, AZ.
That’s it for now. Going to publish this Ubuntu powered post, and reboot to Windows. When I get it installed onto the laptop, I might do a follow up and create another series; something called “Living between Linux and Windows” or something more creative.
Testing a theory
Will this turn out 14px, bold and red in the feed?
Scoble was erased? Ha!
Here’s my reply to Scobles, “Erased” post in the aftermath of his “debacle”. Geesh!
First off, I seriously doubt you went into all this not thinking about all the mileage you were going to be able to get out of it, regardless of getting nabbed. But that’s okay. I don’t have any negative feelings if you knew you’d be able to have $h1tloads of press/links written about the “experiment”. In fact, I applaud you for doing it, knowing that you are smart enough to have figured out the various potential results.
Plus, you’re getting ready to announce “your next move” in terms of moving your career from podtech to Scoble 2.0 (2.5?, 3.0?). Does anyone truly imagine this is “hurting” you? Come on people.
But to the bigger point: FB is what it is. If you want to be more in control of your social network, you need to be following DiSo or APML or the likes. You need to have an OpenID.
What we are experiencing right now is nothing like what we’ll experience online in 5 or 10 years. NOTHING.
And if you were able to get yourself all riled up over the “shenanigans” that RS just perpetrated, I ask you this: do you have a safeway, ralphs, frys, or any other grocery store “member” card? If you do, and you use it regularly, your the fool! Why, because they know more about you than you know about you. They know more about what you do than you probably realize. And you can’t get at that information. You can’t pull it out of their systems.
But you all keep harping on the tragedy that has occurred here. Amazing!
Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo
My response to Steve Ivy’s post Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo.
You touch on the branding concepts being a part of the DiSo-verse, and at that same time, I’d argue that if you create (or worse) require any element of the process to have a certain design (the profile pages) then you are going to create resistance.
On my blog, http://boldlygoing.com, I’ve painstakingly over written the default style capabilities of the MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and BumpZEE! widgets. Why? Because it was more important to me that their functionality fit into the overall site design.
Profile pages may be somewhat different, however I’d submit that badges, logos, etc ARE the way to brand and create a cohesive experience. Everyone that knows about RSS pretty much knows what that little orange, square icon means/represents.
Don’t you think that keeping “requirements” as minimal as possible is better than instituting design/styling demands???
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