As a postmortem on the last post I wrote regarding the search for a means of auto-posting daily Twitter digests to Blogger, I wanted to report back on the outcomes of the investigation.
In the end I gave up. After many days of looking and searching – first for an easy solution and then progressively more and more complex ones as the week drew on – I ultimately realised I was developing an increasingly convoluted design merely to stay with a free public blogging service.
As it turned out this issue …

What began as a short response to @Danny Kingsley has gradually blown out into something far larger.  So rather than leave this in the comments area of the original post I thought I might devote a new post to it. (Thanks for your thoughts on this, Danny.)
I suppose I should take a step back and add a bit of context to the perspective I’m coming from here, because the original post was a bit too broad brush in many ways.
My comments were directed largely at the notion of sharing and reuse of …

File this as “needs further investigation.”
There’s been a blog post on Moodle version 2.0 that’s been sitting in my RSS reader for quite some time now that I’ve only just gotten around to reading and I’m really glad I did, because one portion of it in particular has made me cautiously optimistic.
In “Did You Know Moodle 2.0 Will…” Hans de Zwart writes:
“Not only will Moodle have a proper RSS feed for your internal blog, it will also allow you to import an external blog (based on a feed URL and on …

Following on my last post about the significance of preserving access to Tweets I’ve spent the evening experimenting with the framework I briefly touched on in the post and wanted to take some time to discuss not only what I’ve done so far, but also some issues and questions that have arose along the way.
Components
As indicated, the syndication framework I’ve set-up incorporates WordPress as the blogging platform, FeedWordPress for aggregation and syndication, and a WP Theme called P2, which is designed as “a group blog theme for short update messages.”  …

[NB: This society doesn't actually exist, I've just made it up.]
Realistically this post could have been easily summarised in 140 characters on Twitter, and the discussion spread out across a collection of updates, however in light of the fact I want to document the responses for reference later I thought I’d devote a post to it instead.
One of the issues I’m finding with Twitter – even when using hashtags – is the fact many services only track Tweets for a certain period of time before they no longer show up …