{"id":164,"date":"2009-04-19T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-04-19T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T16:47:00","slug":"twitter-whats-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/twitter-whats-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter? What’s that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’m on the bleeding edge in some areas of technology, I’m not in others. Latest example: Twitter. I’ve been on twitter<\/a> for a while, but rarely used it; but now everyone from my thesis advisor<\/a> to Google Newsbot<\/a> are on Twitter. Twitter, through its short posts, follow\/following metaphor, and realtime nature, does seem to be a good way to communicate what people are up to in short sound bites. So I guess it is time for me to actually start using the darn thing.<\/p>\n

I use Google Reader<\/a> to follow a variety of blogs, including Lifehacker<\/a>, so I knew that there was a Twitter Gadget<\/a> for Gmail Labs<\/a>‘s Gadget feature (specifically the Add Gadget by Url feature<\/a>). If you haven’t used Gmail Labs or the Gadget feature, don’t worry; the Twitter Gadget site<\/a> has detailed installation instructions<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Once I close the Twitter window, I don’t open it again for weeks or months. I’d hoped that widget would help me twitter more, but, alas, the real important and functional features of Gmail – labels, chat, etc – push the Twitter client way, way down to the bottom of the page, so I rarely see it. TwitterGadget also has an iGoogle widget<\/a>, but I rarely use iGoogle<\/a>. So I’m still not plugged in to this thing in any meaningful sense.<\/p>\n

But, well, occasionally I do twitter, but how can I surface this information to the rest of you who don’t twitter? The Library of Dresan<\/a> is supposed to be the primary repository of all my information – you shouldn’t have to go to twitter.com to find out what I’m up to. Fortunately, Twitter has a variety of widgets<\/a>, including one for Blogger<\/a>. I’ve experimentally added this to my blog – making the need for a redesign even more pressing.<\/p>\n

But, for now, I’m ready to, uh, tweet.
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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