2013/04/09 0:34
Sometimes I write a blog post that I personally think is interesting but which gets almost entirely ignored, probably partly because I announced it on Facebook and Twitter at a time when most people were asleep. I have now partly solved this problem on my Arc of Prosperity blog by installing a WordPress plugin called Tweetily. Tweetily will randomly select...
2013/01/07 15:44
When I created my independence blog, Arc of Prosperity, I decided I would at first publish relevant posts on both blogs.However, it's not ideal that there isn't a primary location for each post. For instance, it means comments on the same story aren't always made in the same place.I've therefore decided to put my blog postings about Scottish independence exclusively...
2013/04/22 8:26
If you follow my political independence blog,
Arc of Prosperity on
Twitter, you will have noticed that I often tweet topical links, prefixed with the text “Seen elsewhere:”.
This happens automatically when I bookmark a link so long as I add a certain label to it.
To do this, I use two free websites, del.icio.us and Twitterfeed.
Del.icio.us is simply a bookmarking site that allows me to save bookmarks and attach labels. All links that I want to appear on Twitter get the label “aop”. (You can see all my aop links here.) The most important del.icio.us feature from this point of view is that you can retrieve these bookmark lists in RSS format (e.g., this RSS feed for my aop links).
Twitterfeed posts RSS feeds to Twitter, so all you need to do is to tell it the address of your del.icio.us RSS feed and determine the posting frequency etc.
Del.icio.us and Twitterfeed work really well together, and it’s my impression that many of my Twitter followers really appreciate the links I’m posting.
2013/03/26 20:50
Today The Scotsman announced that they will make a quarter of their editorial staff redundant, and The Telegraph have decided to set up a paywall. On a more positive note, Wings over Scotland's fundraiser exceeded its ambitious goal, raising more than £30k. It's clear that traditional journalism is in danger. However, I'm not really sure that the solution consists of paywalls, fundraisers, intrusive ads etc. The things is that in the "old" days (about ten years ago), I spent something...
2013/02/26 18:47
{description}Now click "preview". This will look dreadful, because this is WordPress code, not HTML, but just click on "save this layout" anyway.You should now be able to use the "share" button on Flickr to generate pretty WordPress posts.
2012/11/13 10:35
Most of the people I follow on Twitter tweet in English, and so do I most of the time.However, I often retweet stuff written in other languages, and I do also from time to time tweet in Danish and occasionally...
2012/06/13 23:02
In connexion with my recent posting about the languages used on this blog, I also had a look at the topics used:I'm not entirely sure what to conclude. Politics (top, red) has obviously been my favourite topic ever since the...
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