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Blamescoble, Day One

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on June 1, 2008
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I wanted an excuse to build something small with the Qcodo PHP framework, and I had thought the whole mini-meme around blaming Scoble for Twitter’s downtime, and Drew Olanoff’s inspired leap to blame Scoble for, well, almost everything else, were amusing enough to build a microsite around. So http://blamescoble.com was born.

I don’t know what I expected but what happened, so far, is:

Day 1 (May 31 2008): 134 visits.
Day 2 (June 1 2008): 502 visits (as of 8:50am).
Crimes laid to Scoble’s charge so far: 210.

I was a bit concerned about spam, but stripping HTML from the entries seems to make this sort of thing a less compelling platform for spammers.

It’s a Conversation

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on May 29, 2008
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Interesting discussion going on on FriendFeed, started by an email Bob Bly sent to Scoble.

Now, because I spend a ridiculous amount of time browsing almost every section of the bookstore, I know exactly who Bob Bly is. He’s the author of a list of books about copy writing as long as your arm, and several other topics as well (though mostly related to that sort of thing).

In a nutshell, Bob asked Robert (pretty respectfully, I thought) why the heck he gets so excited about everything he writes about (Twitter, FriendFeed, so on). Robert’s answer… was maybe not quite as civil as one might expect. This was pointed out in the discussion on FriendFeed, and Robert asked (reasonably enough) — Well, how would you answer the question?
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The New OS

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on May 28, 2008
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Dave Winer recently wrote:

Twitter is the new OS. For the moment. It’s like the Apple /// in the days before the IBM PC. Remember the Apple ///? (Not many do.)

I think that’s a good insight, and I like the comparison to the early days of the PC (really the pre-PC). But I don’t think Twitter is it.

What I think is coming is going to be more like a jumble of Greasemonkey and Shiftspace. Though I don’t think either of those are “it” — at least, not yet.
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Facebook morphs into… Twitter?

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on May 23, 2008
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The New Facebook interface.

I’m not sure yet if you must be logged in to see the above; let me know.

Looks an awful lot like a more featureful Twitter.

It still seems pretty incomplete, to me. I can’t find the option to post a link or note at all, only the “Wall” option; and links in your “Wall” don’t actually reformat as links, so that’s a big lose for Twitter-like functionality. I think we can assume this will be fixed, though.

So what do you think? Will this work for them?

Turn FriendFeed Into A Twitter Client

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Phil Crissman
on May 22, 2008
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Internet Duct Tape has a great Greasemonkey script which will effectively turn FriendFeed into a Twitter client; adds the ability to tweet directly from FriendFeed, complete with a 140-character counter to keep you within Twitter parameters.

Still “client” is a bit misleading… to be able to see the messages of everyone you follow on Twitter, you would still need to follow them on FriendFeed (if they’re there) or add them as imaginary friends… which as I said before, is actually a really sweet feature. The same source also has a downloadable script to do just that; if you are on windows.

On Why FriendFeed Makes A Twitter Replacement Unnecessary

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on May 21, 2008
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Every so often you see rumbles on Twitter about the likelihood of someone building A Better Twitter, with the idea that everyone will jump ship after getting fed up with Twitter’s downtime. Arguably, Pownce already is a “better” Twitter in some respects — yet the jump hasn’t happened.

I could be wrong (sources say this has happened before), but I think FriendFeed makes a new, improved Twitter… well, basically unnecessary.
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Welcome To Twitter! Twitter is down, now.

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on May 19, 2008
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Heh. So I showed my sister John Hodgman’s twitter page, and she responded by deciding to sign up for a twitter account. We chatted over IM about Twitter for a few minutes, then this exchange took place:

(3:47:03 PM) Shiz: twitter is down over here now
(3:47:07 PM) Shiz: won’t load
(3:47:23 PM) Phil Crissman: yeah. Here too. everywhere.
(3:47:26 PM) Phil Crissman: Welcome to twitter!

I guess it’s good for people to see what Twitter’s all about right away.

Ixnay on the Ittertway (in this feed)

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on May 13, 2008
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So, I had installed Twitter-Tools, thinking that it would be a nifty idea to integrate tweets with the blog posts, kind of like little “asides”. There are a few not too far below this post, for example.

I’ve since re-considered, and decided against this. I just don’t think it integrates real well. Perhaps in a tumblog, but I just wasn’t seeing the value in leaving that turned on. If there is some short tidbit that I want to post on the blog, I think I’ll just post it as an aside.

That is all.

Twitter Explained in Two Minutes

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Phil Crissman
on May 2, 2008
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Hat tip to Ev and of course the creators of the video at Common Craft.

Twitter off the Rails? And, so what?

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Phil Crissman
on May 2, 2008
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There’s a rumor flying around that Twitter is going to abandon Rails, so obviously this calls for us to stop and ruminate without making even the barest efforts to confirm or deny said rumor. Facts may be added, like a garnish, to later blog posts, like Parmesan cheese to your spaghetti.

For example, Evan Williams says that Twitter has no plans to abandon RoR. Hm. I guess that ought to just stop this particular line of musing right out of the gate.

Never mind. Let’s talk about it anyways.
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