A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches.

May 02 Comments Off on A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches. Category: Feed, HackText, Wordpress

While numerous tools for publicly archiving Twitter searches have gone premium or disappeared entirely, I’ve built a new one that works entirely within WordPress. Now I need your help to test it.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about how to archive Twitter chats using the then popular and perfectly functional WhatTheHashtag. Later on the site was suddenly shut down and the service discontinued. Since then, I’ve stumbled from tool to tool, trying to find an equally optimal solution that would allow me to generate HTML containing Tweets and post them on my blog (independent from any other platform) with the greatest amount of speed possible.

DISQUS and Facebook Comments, a troubling direction for online commenting

September 07 Comments Off on DISQUS and Facebook Comments, a troubling direction for online commenting Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText, Wordpress

Commenting systems have become a popular way to increase engagement online. But it means giving your comments live offsite. What do we lose and is it worth it?

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Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

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Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

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  2. Is Digg Completely Irrelevant to Gen Y?
  3. Facebook Bans News of SpeedDate.com