A piece ‘a Me

Something I’ve been doing recently is going through my Twitter follows and cleaning out news feeds from them. In the vast majority of cases these places have RSS feeds which are easier to manage, don’t clutter up your Twitter stream and are just as easy to get to your phone or PC.

For some, RSS may be less convenient but I find news sites dumping 5 or 10 stories at a tine into my Twitter feed pretty damnably annoying too.

So, today’s mantra is “Twitter for people, RSS for news”.

Well I haven’t posted anything here in a while, as I’ve been kinda snowed under from one angle or another, or just too tired to be bothered. Blogging, after all, is something I do as a spare moment/enthusiasm thing and well I ain’t had any lately. I was quite stunned when a person actually missed me on Twitter, almost flattering really (Hello Peter C. )!

Stuff is happening though that means that’s set to change! Hurrah!

I discovered this evening that, as part of their Windows Live! Services, Microsoft provide a Blogging tool called ‘Writer’. Now it would have been easy for them to only make it work with Live! Spaces and nothing else, but what I actually found was something much cooler. It supports Wordpress, and as such I am writing this post from the app in question. Minds are slowly opening up at Microsoft I think. Slowly but surely they are learning that there is a big world out there that is outside and has some super cool stuff going on. While a nice blogging tool is only a tiny thing to most people, it’s just another sign. More of this please Microsoft, and less threats of legal wrangling with Open Source authors.

UPDATE: slightly disappointingly, the Tags system in writer doesn’t interact correctly with the tag cloud database in Wordpress. Not a biggy but still a bit of a bummer.

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1093.html

I could use at east half a dozen of those

My Twitter

I’d forgotten how much of a Joy Wordpress was to install. Seriously, it’s so smooth. Sure it takes a while to get everything in place (and I keep remembering stuff I need to do as I go along), but it’s another piece of well done Web 2.0. Oh, and it’s free, which is always great.

I have a New Blog. Joy behold.