Heading off to see Moms! 5 hrs ago
May 7, 2008 
Intense Debate aims to improve comments on your blog. I’ll make this short and sweet:
Nuff said.
I’m going to try it out for a week or so and see how it goes. I’ll miss Seesmic comments but I haven’t received a video comment in a while so I doubt it will affect anything.
May 5, 2008 Today, Google announced a cool new feature to Google Reader: The ability to share an item with a note. I could see this being useful for me and my podcast as Google Reader shared items is my primary source for collecting links to podcast about. Now I can do this outside of Google Reader by using the bookmarklet and also append a note about the story to use during podcasting. I didn’t want to use Google Shared Items for this as I do a lot of my link gathering through Google Reader, but occasionally, I’l stumble across something in Twitter or FriendFeed that I want to discuss. This note feature will work perfectly with that.
Now there are some who believe this feature is lacking, and while I agree, I think it’s outside the scope of the its intent. It sounds as if people want this to be FriendFeed and it’s not.
At any rate, I’ll definitely get some use out of it, especially given the amount of time I use Google Reader. Now all we need is the ability to do this from the iPhone and my workflow will be much smoother 
Update: FriendFeed now imports Google Reader Shared Item Notes. Scary fast.
Posted in web2.0 
April 26, 2008 
Twitter has become part of my daily routine here at bwana.world, and I’ve found that while there are many interesting people on it, I don’t want to know everything about them. There are plenty of people who love to use Twitter to follow everyone that follows them. While I understand some of their reasoning, I don’t agree with taking in all that personal data from others as it is my belief that it can affect you. As with most technologies I use on the web, there must be some sort of filter or sanity. It’s true with FriendFeed, and it’s true with Twitter.
I want to share with you my technique for using Twitter. I don’t expect everyone who reads this to agree with it, but I do hope you find some bit of knowledge you didn’t already know. The technique I use is simple: Separate personal twitter from the overall noise. In order to do this, I use two programs: twhirl and Adium. One is an Adobe Air client, the other is a Google talk interface to Twitter.
This video demonstrates and explains more:
So why use two programs instead of one? It’s easy. I’d rather use twhirl’s interface for creating and responding, but Adium barely gets touched. I only touch Adium when I click on a link or I add/remove a tracking term. It’s not as bad as it seems, but the reward is great. I get to sift through a LOT of noise, and have plenty of meaningful discussions, find new links, find new people, and do it all with a pleasant interface and a global filter. That’s it in a nutshell.
So what do you think? How do you use Twitter? Please leave a text or video comment as I’m open to new ideas.
April 25, 2008 Battlestar Galactica backstory in 8 minutes video here. It’s hilarious.
I posted this video on Viddler since Seesmic was down.
Posted in geek
April 23, 2008 Video blogging has been atop of my interests lately and while I haven’t found my video micro-blogging solution yet, I am experimenting with various video commenting solutions for my Wordpress blog. I installed Viddler’s wordpress plugin which allows video comments. It was easy to install and worked like a charm.
Today, Seesmic has announced a Wordpress comment plugin which allows video integration with your Wordpress blog. It allows you to:
I’ve installed this plugin on this blog for the time being and I’ve found one feature that makes it very very useful: Anonymous video commenting. While the plugin does allow you to use your existing Seesmic credentials to post, most users may not want to create a Seesmic account just for a comment. I find this will encourage more users to post a video comment. On the flip side, it’s also a little scary that anonymous users can post a video comment @Critter on Twitter assures me that Seesmic video comments can be moderated just like regular Wordpress comments, but I’m still a little scared as to what may fall in my moderation queue
All in all, Seesmic’s Wordpress comment is a winner and now Viddler has a direct competitor in the form of video commenting on Wordpress blogs. Which is better? I think it’s way too early to say. Both are easy to use, both are well integrated with Wordpress, but Seesmic allows anonymous video comments which may be its main advantage. You be the judge. Want a Seesmic account? Check this out:
I don’t know if this is common knowledge, but if I were you, I’d jump on it! Feel free to leave a video comment on this blog post to test it out for yourself and also, to tell me what you think about Seesmic new Wordpress plugin.
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