Tag Archives: tweets

Tweets on 2008-10-29

  • I’ve just discovered where the Goose Fair giant goose lives for the rest of the year. #
  • It’s been so long since I last went leafleting, I almost forgot to have cake. #
  • Irritated that mobile internet seems to work in coffee shop queue but not at table 2m away. #
  • Well, I’m enjoying xkcd even if others aren’t. #
  • Writing a #postcrossing card in German. And even I’m wincing at the mistakes I’m making. #

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Tweets on 2008-10-28

  • Watching outdoor temperature plummet (now 0.4 deg C) and feeling hugely grateful boiler man got here today! #
  • @alanfleming wrist straps? #
  • Temperature at the bottom of the garden has been as low as 0.2 but has now risen again to 0.5. No FREEZING KLAXON tonight 😦 #
  • -0.2 deg c! Awooga, Awooga! #
  • Eek, 13 messages waiting on my answerphone! #
  • Hehe – Lab council leader wants to be my friend on Facebook. He has 5 friends so far! #
  • Colder still tonight – is already -0.8 deg c #
  • ooh, ooh, -2.7 now. Checking out of window for snow on cars, but it turns out it’s just one of those Minis with a white roof. #

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Don’t read this unless you use Twitter and WordPress

WordPress bloggers who use Twitter have known for some time that you
can use the plugin Twitter Tools to reproduce your twitter content into your blog in one daily mindump at a time of your choosing.

You can also use Twitter Tools to point twitter readers at your blog whenever you write a new post – which has been controversial for some. My view is that it’s probably OTT for those who still blog multiple times a day, but ideal for the many of us who used to, but who now twitter many times a day instead and blog only infrequently. The practice was annoying back in the day when tweets arrived as SMSes and you couldn’t do much about it from your phone, but now that Twitter have removed this function far more people are reading Twitter from a computer.

But the aha! moment I had last week which prompted me to write this piece was an interesting bit of additional functionality you can get from adding in the plugin KB Linker to the mix. KB Linker scans your blog post texts for key phrases and inserts a link.

It’s fully configurable, so you choose your key phrases and the links they generate. At LDV, we have a full list of all Lib Dem MPs and other representatives, so that whenever one of our correspondents idly tosses in a name, the site automatically plugs their website.

Using KB Linker and Twitter Tools means you can have a system where key words in tweets can become links by the time they make it into postings on your blog – without having to use awkward tinyurls and so on.

You could use this to direct blog readers to useful posts or pages on your own site which unpack some of your shorthand. For example, councillor bloggers could point the word “ctte” to a posting explaining which committees they serve on and what they actually do.

You could use it for SEO, and point regularly occurring twitter words at sites that need a little Google boost.

You could even use it to link a hashtag to the hashtag-summary page on Twemes. And hope that the world doesn’t explode in a massive mess of Web 2.0 self-referential geekery that vanishingly few people will actually understand.

Tweets on 2008-10-27

  • Cleaning the kitchen specially for the boiler repair men. #
  • There’s a grate outside the Guildhall that steams when it’s cold. Is this Nottingham or New York? #
  • Settling down to watch Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set and can’t quite believe Friends is still on TV. #
  • Kevin Eldon just gives the game away. Too recognisable a face. #
  • Hoping for Zombie Davina #

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Tweets on 2008-10-26

  • Putting back the clock on the oven… and the clock on the heating… and the cuckoo clock… all the rest are automatic, I think. #
  • “I worshipped him blindly / He worships another / Attend to me kindly / this lady’s… my MOTHER!” DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM This lady’s his what? #
  • Grr. Looks like the boiler’s on the blink again. 😦 #
  • Waiting for the immersion heater to do its job and wishing we had an immersion heater that could power the radiators #

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Tweets on 2008-10-25

  • Rudely awoken at 9am on the dot by oik with a ladder wanting to clean my gutters. Offer too good to refuse. #
  • Alan Shore vs the Supreme Court?! OMG! Amazing! #
  • Briefly hating Steven Spielberg, on @stephenfry ‘s say so #
  • Drinkin’ beer and enterin’ canvass data. #
  • Oh boy, if the supreme court weren’t enough, now we have Denny Crane for President?! #
  • @doctorvee football hooligans? Stopping the train to get Transport Police to evict non fare-payers? #

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Tweets on 2008-10-24

  • Going to v exciting briefing about traffic lights and SCOOT. #
  • Actually opening my copy of Lib Dem News for the first time in yonks in order to see @HelenDuffett on page 4 #
  • Thinking the squirrel drinking from the fountain on the upper lawn is cute, even if it is an evil grey #
  • RT @owenblacker @jankowski http://hugeju.gs/ #
  • Oh, look, another cup of half-drunk coffee abandoned somewhere unlikely. Oh, wait, this is my house… #

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Tweets on 2008-10-23

  • Going to bed two hours earlier than last night, but still not exactly what you’d call “early”. #
  • Just seen an African-looking woman balancing a huge Adidas sports bag on her head walking down Lenton Bvd. #
  • Wow, an incredible 2 mins face time with dentist. No probs at all. X-rays fine. Don’t even need hygienist appt! #
  • There’s some rather nice but short-dated ham for your tea if you want it. #
  • Intrigued by local dry-cleaners offering “full laundry service – including collection!” Wonder if they strip beds… #

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Tweets on 2008-10-22

  • Argh! I hate that nasty “snap” thing that makes hovering over things so perillous. #
  • Gobsmacked by suggested new designs for railway station carpark. #
  • Checking the atlas, I discover the village I’m visiting in Lincs to help a selection is just north of Boothby Grafoe #
  • Upending a cup of cold coffee all over myself. Could have been worse, I suppose #

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Tweets on 2008-10-21

  • Heading off down a very strange line of thought that involves picturing Lab cllrs as Star Wars villains. #
  • Been humming song from “Oh What a Lovely War!” – just realised I’m actually humming “What a friend we have in Jesus” #
  • Delighted to see the Atheist Bus Campaign has massively surpassed its fundraising targets. #
  • @owenblacker archive.org have… “reliability issues”. #
  • @willhowells not to be personal, but aren’t you too old for that? #
  • Handwriting a letter. Spelling my own name wrong. Why?! #

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