Complurkations
If you’ve visited here from time to time, you’ll know I’m a fiddler. I mess with things. I love things you can configure, especially if there’s a risk you can break it. I run Linux, and I drive an Alfa Romeo. QED.
In and among all the excitement of last weekend, on the spur of the moment I decided to change the theme of this blog to the somewhat awesome Carrington. What do I like about it? I can tweak the configuration. Not content with that, at Vextra’s request, I went digging around inside the theme files so I could hack the header graphic to include my piccie. Fun fun fun.
I’ve also been playing around with ’social network’ sites like Facebook and Twitter, and I was starting to link those in to my site – you might have seen the odd experiment here before. And you might even remember the series of experiments which resulted in concluding that Posterous was the best way to post SL postcards to several sites at once, as well as poking them into this blog as postings. The idea that you couldn’t do this easily pre-Posterous is… oh, well.
Then, Vextra mentioned Plurk, and I played with that. And pretty soon I had plurks being copied to facebook, facebook linked to this blog, twitter linked to this blog, this blog sending plurks and tweets whenever I post something new, and.. and… well, at this point I was beginning to fear that I might trigger entropic interneticide, as tweets and plurks interbred (twurks? pleets?) with facebook updates (facetwurks?, facepleets?), multiplied, and eventually swamped us all. Not pretty. Actually, facepleets sound really ugly.
And then, just as Poserous solved the issue of posting pictures to many places, I found – or was pushed towards (I can’t remember) – ping.fm. Quite why I hadn’t found it before, I’m not sure. So I can email, or SMS text, or browse to ping.fm and it will then pass that message on to a whole host of other… erm… hosts. Sorry. Though I haven’t tried it, I think ping.fm might be able to do what Posterous does too.
And then there’s ‘pinghud’, which allows me to post one-liners from SL to ping.fm, at which point ping.fm scatterguns the internet with my minor pearl of wisdom. Things like “Ava Ganache has eaten too much for dinner”. Yeah, that was one of my gems.
As I said, I’m a fiddler.