Published on Monday, February 23 2009
Alex King’s excellent WordPress plugin, Twitter Tools, has been released in a 1.6 version.
As described in this earlier post, I’ve modified Twitter Tools to use Identi.ca endpoints rather than Twitter ones, since I have my Identi.ca account set to auto-cross-post to Twitter.
Here’s a revised version of what I’m calling Identi.ca tools – just replace the twitter-tools.php from the 1.6 release with this one (rename it from twitter-tools.php.txt to twitter-tools.php of course) and you should be good to go:
twitter-tools.php.txt
Published on Tuesday, February 10 2009
Photo by Andrea Mercado
Thanks to Karen Huffman (@slakm) who raised some issues she was having with an installation of ReTweeter, I’ve tracked down the bug and uploaded and released 0.9.1.
Turns out that in late December of 2008, the Twitter API servers started sending a 417 Status Code response to many clients, including ReTweeter. (See Alex Payne’s announcement on the Twitter API Google Group and this message from Tom Morris which identified the necessary fix for CURL based clients).
In addition to squashing that bug, this update also better handles error responses from the Twitter API in general, which is to say it actually identifies to the user what status code was returned to enable better troubleshooting.
Remember to copy your settings from your old version before overwriting with the new.
Published on Friday, February 6 2009
Evan Prodromou recently asked the following on the laconica-dev list:
So, Ubuntu has a pretty famous Bug #1:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
The title is “Microsoft has a majority market share”. I think it’s a great part of the Ubuntu culture, because it focuses people on what they want to do with Ubuntu.
Our bug #1, by the way, is “/doc/contact”.
http://laconi.ca/trac/ticket/1
Since this was long-ago fixed, I’d like to wipe this ticket* and replace it with an overall project purpose, like Ubuntu’s. But what would the bug be?
It got me thinking – and not just about Identi.ca and open microblogging as a federated, distributed alternative to centralized approaches like Twitter.
Moose and Squirrel - photo by Paul Lannuier.
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Published on Sunday, January 25 2009
Alex King‘s Twitter Tools is a great little WordPress plugin for integrating your Twitter presence with your blog. It can show your latest tweets in a sidebar widget, create a “digest” post daily / weekly with a list of your tweets, and announce your blog posts to your twitter account.
In this post I’ll show you what changes are necessary to make it work with identi.ca instead of Twitter.
Why would you want to do that?
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Published on Monday, December 29 2008
Just catching up on some of the blogs and tweets I missed over the holidays. The folks at HubSpot, who are also the folks behind TwitterGrader and WebSite Grader, put out a State of the Twittersphere Report, modeled on the old Technorati State of the Blogosphere reports.
It’s got some interesting stats, though I’d wonder if the self-selecting audience of folks who tried Twitter Grader isn’t a bigger problem in terms of the basis of the analysis.
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