Feedback sought – live blogging

 Politics  1 Response »
Sep 202011
 

I decided to keep a running commentary on Twitter of the Republican presidential debate that was broadcast on CNN last week. I had an absolute blast doing so, but I am sure that the number of posts I made during that period annoyed some of my followers. At the very least the volume of tweets that cross posted to my Facebook page temporarily broke the link between the two.

There is another debate on Friday night and I have every intention of doing a running commentary again. My question, for those of you who would like to follow along, is how should I do so? Should I set up a live blogging plugin here and have the notices cross-posted to twitter and Facebook? Should I set up a special Twitter account specifically fir my live blogs? Should I do exactly what I did last tine and let anyone who doesn’t care to read my commentary ignore, filter, or drop me as they choose? Should I take sone other path I have not, as of yet, considered?

I’d really like some feedback on this because I loved doing it but I don’t want to do so if it’s going to annoy mire than entertain.

Thanks, all!

Edit – So this is how it would look if I did the live blog here.

10:53 PM

I keep promising this is going to be my last attempt to fix this, don’t I? I’m gonna get sent to Twitter Jail before I even start live blogging. Would it help if I said I really, really thought that maybe I fixed it now?

10:42 PM

Yeah, ok….So that wasn’t entirely the last post. Sorry. I’m really done now. This is working. Maybe not quite how I wanted it to, but considering the fact that I’ve never programmed in PHP before I’m pretty happy with the results.

10:38 PM

Bloggy bloggy live blog post. Running out of things to say to get to 140 characters. May resort to Lorum Ipsum text soon. Or, perhaps, bacon ipsum. Bacon is delicious. I miss bacon.

10:36 PM

One more test here before I call it quits. That last link was kinda ugly, and some of the stuff I just read seemed to indicate that it might not always work. One last shot at getting it “just right”

10:23 PM

Yeah, that didn’t do anything. Trying something different. Hopefully it will work this time. Yeah, that would be totally awesome. Have I hit 140 characters yet? Probably.

10:17 PM

Hey, that almost worked, but the ID was for the liveblog entry and not for the actual post so the link was broken. Trying again with a different parameter. Let’s see what happens this time.

10:12 PM

Hey all. Sorry for the pointless update, but I’m trying to see if the changes I made to the Live Blogging plugin work. If I’m successful in this, it’s going to cut this down to 110 characters and add a link back to the original post. Let’s hope it actually works.

10:04 PM

Ok, Done playing with this for the moment. Take a look at the format and let me know what you think, gang. Thanks.

09:57 PM

Oh. Hrm. So it appears as though it’s the Live Blogging plugin that’s disabling the Add To Any section. Ah well. I’d rather have the live updating.

09:55 PM

Unlinked from Twitter while I play with this some more. Unfortunately it seems as though removing the Add To Any links from the live blog posts also disables it from the post itself.

09:52 PM

Just found some code that supposedly fixes the update issue. Let’s see what happens.

09:20 PM

Ok, well that’s lame. There’s no link back to the post if it exceeds the character limit.

09:19 PM

So this is what happens when I tie the live blogging plugin with my Twitter account. The first 130 characters or so are posted to twitter along with a link back to the live post.

09:09 PM

Unfortunately, it’s not auto updating on the post like it’s supposed to.

09:09 PM

This plugin is amazeballs!

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What is it worth?

 Social Media  1 Response »
Oct 172010
 

I follow a lot of folks on Twitter who, like myself, are very active in the social media community. These people, again like me, are very passionate about the importance of social media in the business world and about how valuable of a tool it can be to promote your business. Unfortunately, many of them seem to fall flat on their face when it comes to coming up with a valid justification as to why a business needs to be involved in social media. In fact, they very frequently tend to take offense at the very nature of the question. Which is, of course, a sure fire way to guarantee that the business you’re trying to convince to get into social media never well.

Return On Investment, kids. It’s not a dirty word. Get over it. The whole nature of taking offense at the idea of justifying why a business should spend money on your idea without being able to quantify where it will turn into profits for them is absurd. It is tantamount to an artist claiming that people “just don’t get” their work. It’s a cop out. Sure, it’s all fine and dandy that you might be doing something unique and awesome in your mind, but if you can’t prove to someone that giving you money for doing so is worth their time you have no business trying.

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Famous last words

 Life Stories, Parenting, The Artists Way  No Responses »
Jan 022010
 

Image courtesy of adamr.stone via flickr.

Alex approached me as I was getting ready for bed last night to tell me that his blood glucose level was low. This was, quite honestly, a bit of a shocker considering how much food we had eaten over at our friend Kari’s house during the course of the day. I realized, though, that I’d had him take his evening shot of insulin when we got home and that he hadn’t eaten anything since so it made sense. It was just weird. In any case I told him that he could go ahead and make himself something to eat because I was about to literally pass out in my chair and I was not in the mood to stay up and cook something for him.

“Oooh!,” he says to me, “I’ll fry up some fish!”

Alex got a deep fryer for Christmas. He didn’t get it from me, and when I saw it on the list of things that he wanted for Christmas that he passed on to his Grandmother I specifically told her that she did not have to go out of her way to get it for him. She did, though, and now he’s the proud owner of a Sensio 13401 Bella Cucina 3-1/2-Liter Stainless-Steel Deep Fryer. While I must admit that having a deep fryer is pretty much the height of awesome if you’re a teenager and you like to cook, this item concerns me for a number of reasons. The obvious one is, of course, the fact that I’m overweight and have had two strokes and fried foods are really not good for me. On top of that, though, I have that whole parent fear of him burning himself while using it or burning down our house (or both). This is an irrational fear, and I am aware of it, but that doesn’t stop me from having it. Like me, the boy is silly and can be highly irresponsible, but as a general rule he takes himself pretty seriously when he’s cooking and he’s never given me a reason to think that he’d do something stupid that would result in injury to person or property.

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Captain Random Strikes Again

 Personal Updates, The Artists Way, World of Warcraft  No Responses »
Mar 032009
 

I think I might need to take another look at The Artist’s Way. Sam got me a copy of it several years ago, but the touchy-feely aspects of the book really turned me off and I put it down.  I don’t even know where my copy is.  Krystalle picked up a copy of it for herself a few weeks ago, and while she was just as put off by those aspects as I was she has been working with the program and it seems to be making a big difference for her.

I need to do something, though. I feel like I’m out of touch with my writing.  I’ve gotten used to communicating via 140 character messages on Twitter and I seem to lose cohesion on my longer posts very quickly.  Yesterday, for example, I started writing a piece on super hero archetypes as leaders and why Bush, who could be compared to Batman, failed.  It started out strongly enough but I just kinda fizzled out and ended up saving it to a text file on my desktop.  I may or may not pick it back up again at some point.

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 Posted by Michael C. McGreevy at 12:19 pm  Tagged with: , , , , ,

Twitterpated

 Acting, Jobsite, Personal Updates, Relationships, Snapshots Of My Life  No Responses »
Jan 122009
 

I haven’t made a post here in almost a month, and all I have is the really lame excuse of “I was busy with the holidays and rehearsing for a show.”  I’m still really busy, actually.  I just started a new semester of classes at Saint Petersburg College (I’m taking the classes necessary to get into their B.S. Technology Management program).

That being said, my creativity is kind of at an all time low – which really sucks because I’m working on a super-secret new project with some friends that is going to require quite a bit of creativity from me in very short order.

The preceding two paragraphs were a lame setup for the cheesy premise of the post that follows.  I’m going to take some of my tweets from the last month and expand on them.

So lame.

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