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 …

I’ve been beating my head against a basic technical question for about a week now and have made zero progress on it thus far.  So in keeping with the way I’ve always coped with this sort of thing, I’m going to put pen to paper – in this case fingers to keyboard – and write about the issue in the hopes of realising something I’ve overlooked.
The fundamental objective is to develop a process of capturing a day’s worth of Twitter posts, and auto-posting them in digest form to a Blogger/Blogspot …

As odd as it may sound, Twitter in many regards is a single point of failure in my network.  In other words, I have no real replacement for it.  Yet I rely upon it fairly heavily as a means of staying connected with people I respect, and whose opinions and expertise I trust – in some cases implicitly.  So when Twitter goes down – as it has right now – it’s a big deal.
In many cases I have no other way to get in contact with people – no email …

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 …