Behind The Blog

I’m not sure when I’ll get my next block of time to hack on our WordPress site some more, but two enhancements I’m looking to add are:

PUBLISHING TO IDENTI.CA

Using the great Twitter Tools plugin, I’ve set this site up so that any blog posts published in any of our public blogs go out in our Twitter stream at twitter.com/voxeo. The primary reason for that is doing this is that we realize that many people (myself included) consume a lot of news/blog content through Twitter now. I’ve noted that myself that I don’t read RSS feeds in a feed reader nearly as much as I used to… instead I consume the information through Twitter. So we publish our posts out that way for people who want to subscribe to them and consume them in that fashion.

But what about the open source microblogging site Identi.ca? I use identi.ca personally, presented about linking Voxeo’s voice platform with Identi.ca at OSCON in 2008, and wrote up a lengthy piece about Yammer, Laconica and other options for internal microblogging back in October. It’s a great service and offers some interesting ideas for distributed microblogging.

Now we have an Identi.ca account at identi.ca/voxeo, but obviously we don’t use it. So I want to do for Identi.ca what we do for Twitter and publish our blog posts out that way. So far, the two main plugin contenders I see are:

• WordIdentica
• Identi.ca Tools

Judging purely from the websites, WordIdentica seems to have a lot of comments and, one would guess, usage. We’ll have to see.

MAKING THE SITE MORE IPHONE/TOUCH-FRIENDLY

Since we are huge iPhone fans and users here, I was intrigued when my colleague Ron Blaisdell pointed me to WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone which essentially is a plugin that provides a theme that makes your site look nicer and more navigable on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I haven’t tried it yet, but I did browse with my iPhone over to a site Ron did at http://www.flgyr.org/ and it does look cool on the iPhone!

Just two of the many things I’d like to do to the site…

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