Despite a lull in the posts on my personal wordpress.com-hosted blog, I thought it time to download wordpress and host it on my personal webspace. Hence new site and a new theme.
Download, install, database set-up and export of existing content from wordpress.com – all a doddle. Very impressed by what I guess has been a much trodden path. A little bit of searching to find a theme I liked, quick search for widgets and job (almost) done. So now it’s down to me to write the posts.
Twitter activity continues, but now with the assistance of a client, or rather two. I use Twhirl if I want to access >1 account. I have a personal account, an account that I’m currently running as UniBirmingham (though soon to hand this over) and an account for webteam apps (more below). If I just want to keep an eye on 1 account during the session, I use Tweetdeck which has a more flexible display ‘deck’. I’m aware there are many more clients out there, but these seemed to be well used (according to those I follow on twitter) and at the moment fulfil my (possibly limited) requirements. When these requirements change or I see a wider change of client-usage in those submitting tweets, I’ll have another look.
I remain quite taken with Twitter – I love its simplicity and speed, and given I’m accessing this as much as my email account I’m interested in how I can use it as a notification device alongside email with our java/web applications. As a result, I has a quick check of the API and that’s as straightforward as the Twitter service itself and after setting up a twitter account to send the DM, it now forms part of a forms facility app I’m currently writing/testing. When it’s launched, we’ll see if there’s any take up.
