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Conformity is NOT in My Dictionary

Portability in the Twitter World

February 26, 2010

I read the Internet. And I do this using Feeddemon. I read it like the Sunday paper. Sometimes one day during the week sometimes 2 and on Sundays. I subscribe to almost three dozen feeds. Some are only photo streams, some are Twitter streams and some are actual full blogs and – well you get the picture, if it has an RSS feed I will read it. If I like it.

I would love to be able to carry my feeds over to my ebook but at this time most sites do not format for ebook screens.

Anyway, in Feeddemon there is an option to share, this sends a link to whatever I was reading to Google Reader. From there I can do any other sharing automatically. I choose my Twitter stream. There is also an option to share with a note.

One thing: When I shared with a note knowing it would go to Twitter I wanted to give twitcred to the author. So I link to their Twitter account with a via @whoeverwroteit – this was fine until I ran into feeds where I did not know the author. Blogs like Huffington Post have multiple authors. Then I would have to manually look up the author and of course this was not fun nor efficient and if anything pains me most it it inefficiency.

So I thought about it? THE FEED!!!! THE FEED!!!!!!!!

So I edited the code on my own website. I added via @jchronowski47 to the title of each blog post to display only in feeds. That way when it is shared through an aggregator and/or parsed through whatever means to Twitter from my RSS feed it already supplies the poster with my twitcred mention

Not sharing just reading then the via @ doesn’t hurt it is just there.

Now all I have to do is cross my fingers and hope the world also thinks of this. Or reads this post.

Then my life would be easier and I would be happier, at least on my digital planet.

Wordpress 2.9 upgrade is not happy

December 28, 2009

WordPress

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‘Feed Me Seymore’ my theme (heavily customized) is not happy with the new upgrade. Also the widgets died and the RSS is MIA. I edited code all days to fix much of it but I am reluctant to dig deaper tonight. I ran the fix rss feed Wordpress plugin on all the files in my install. it removed whitespace but still no RSS. My guess is there is one file dynamically creating the header and it is offline. but what file??? I disabled all the plugins and the RSS problem still exists.

I am pretty sure the CSS is off because of the new way that WP must be dealing with widgets.

I also noticed my custom fields are not displaying… so one more thing to repair. idk I am writing a plugin and it is the easiest thing in the world to keep it simple so that your code does not conflict and will work accross upgrades.??? what happened? lack of straight line code writing… bad thing.

C’est la vie. Tomorrow is another day.

Presumptuous Tips for the Google Reader Dev Team

July 16, 2009

Google

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To the developers of www.instapaper.com what an idea. I love using their bookmarklet to send pages that I see and don’t have time to read, at that moment, to a page where they are stored for me to read later.

That beats the heck out of even having to slush through regular RSS feeds to find the 2 out of 10 blog posts and articles that you actually even want to take the time to read.

Google Reader is not there yet. Instapaper is what I want in a reader. The ability to toss stuff in a pile then read it when I settle down to use my dedicated reading time.

I use Intsapaper in IE8 (YES I coded my own favorite bar link bookmarklet)

http://www.instapaper.com/j/7ohbVg0vA8OA’);b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert(‘Please”>javascript:var d=document,z=d.createElement(’scr’+'ipt’),b=d.body;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title=’(Saving…) ‘+d.title;z.setAttribute(’src’,'http://www.instapaper.com/j/7ohbVg0vA8OA’);b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert(‘Please wait until the page has loaded.’);}void(0)

Just use the code above and ADD TO FAVORITES BAR . It may ask you if you really want to do this or tell you that it is an invalid link but it works.

I sometimes use Instapaper along with the StumbleUpon toolbar. Just in case there is something that requires more attention span then 10 seconds to read through and I am interested. I also save to read later lots of links that people send me via Twitter. I try to read about 30 % of all links sent to my public timeline in any given day. And I read all the DM and @ links sent to me. I think I comment on about 25% of them. Some of them are not relevant to me beyond me reading them.

I am just now sure what Google is trying to accomplish with Reader without giving you the ability to send individual pages into it on the fly. I already have a feed reader.