CleverJots http://cleverjots.com CleverClogs's Cross-Posting Microblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:31:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 This is a post from http://cleverjots.com/status/43 http://cleverjots.com/status/43#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:31:55 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/43 This is a post from hellotxt.com, intended for the cleverjots,com blog

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/43/feed 0 This is a post from http://cleverjots.com/status/42 http://cleverjots.com/status/42#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:25:37 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/42 This is a post from hellotxt.com, intended for the cleverjots,com blog

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/42/feed 0 Marrying HelloTXT and mailVU http://cleverjots.com/status/36 http://cleverjots.com/status/36#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:11:38 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/36 I’m making the switch from ping.fm to HelloTXT to publish short posts to CleverJots.com more easily. In fact, I created this very update using the convenient Status Update form on the web interface of HelloTXT after I specified this WordPress blog as my preferred endpoint. Besides the web interface there are mobile clients and an e-mail gateway that seems to fit seamlessly with another service I want to tell you about first.

@mailVU is a very nifty, free web service to create private video email messages. The service was launched in 2010 and I’ve personally been fancying it for a couple of months now. There’s no sign-up required. Messages can be up to 10 minutes long, and you can set a message to expire either in a specific number of days or after it’s been viewed a number of times.

One of the things that also appeal to me in mailVU is that recipients can play back your messages in whatever desktop email client or web browser they like, and on whatever device and platform they choose. The business version of mailVU lets you brand messages with a company logo and offers a widget to include on the company website so that visitors can leave a video message. A convenient back-end lets you manage previously recorded messages, adjust your template and even upload video recordings from your desktop.

A full feature description is on the mailVU website. Do check it out if you haven’t, or start playing with the mailVU iPhone app.

So, to explain how I would like to put HelloTXT and mailVU together: I would like to start submitting mailVU video messages to this blog through the HelloTXT email gateway, effectively creating video blog entries without too much hassle. Let me know if you like the idea.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/36/feed 0 Giving my micro-blogging experiment Clev… http://cleverjots.com/status/35 http://cleverjots.com/status/35#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:10:09 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/35 Giving my micro-blogging experiment Cleverjots another whirl. Both WordPress plug-in WP2PingFM and the P2 theme got updated in the mean time

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/35/feed 0 Not very successful yet. I wonder if it… http://cleverjots.com/status/33 http://cleverjots.com/status/33#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:37:01 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/33 Not very successful yet. I wonder if it’s just me or if other people have the same problem and get their posts cut off at just 40 characters

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/33/feed 0 Another attempt from WordPress http://cleverjots.com/status/30 http://cleverjots.com/status/30#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:29:50 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/?p=30 Another attempt to create a 140-char update that @PingFM is supposed to propagate to Twitter in full.  Too bad WP doesn’t have a char count.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/30/feed 0 http://cleverjots.com/status/28 http://cleverjots.com/status/28#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:32:11 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/28 Ping.fm works fine again, but no more than 40 characters seem to get transmitted to Twitter.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/28/feed 0 Using WordPress ‘Add New Post’ http://cleverjots.com/status/26 http://cleverjots.com/status/26#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:28:42 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/?p=26 In my quest to figure out why at the moment my CleverJots status updates are being cut off on their journey through Ping.FM, I’m now using the standard, full-featured ‘Add New Post’ input form, instead of the basic, but convenient status update form injected by the P2 theme. I want to be able to cram 140 chars into a Twitter post.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/26/feed 0 Using WordPress Add New Post Form http://cleverjots.com/status/23 http://cleverjots.com/status/23#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:19:06 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/?p=23 In my quest to figure out why at the moment my CleverJots status updates are being cut off on their journey through Ping.FM, I’m now using the standard, full-featured ‘Add New Post’ input form, instead of the basic, but convenient status update form injected by the P2 theme. I want to be able to cram 140 chars into a Twitter post.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/23/feed 0 Using WordPress ‘Add New Post’ http://cleverjots.com/status/20 http://cleverjots.com/status/20#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:18:21 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/?p=20 In my quest to figure out why at the moment my CleverJots status updates are being cut off on their journey through Ping.FM, I’m now using the standard, full-featured ‘Add New Post’ input form, instead of the basic, but convenient status update form injected by the P2 theme. I want to be able to cram 140 chars into a Twitter post.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/20/feed 0 Removing the superfluous links back to C… http://cleverjots.com/status/19 http://cleverjots.com/status/19#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:11:28 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/19 Removing the superfluous links back to CleverJots, at least temporarily.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/19/feed 0 Re-entered my Twitter credentials on @Pi… http://cleverjots.com/status/18 http://cleverjots.com/status/18#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:04:53 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/18 Re-entered my Twitter credentials on @PingFM. Let’s see if that tames the beast.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/18/feed 0 Hm. Which component in my P2-themed micr… http://cleverjots.com/status/17 http://cleverjots.com/status/17#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:54:59 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/17 Hm. Which component in my P2-themed micro-blog might be causing the ugly status update cut-offs?

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/17/feed 0 Cool single-function add-on Character Co… http://cleverjots.com/status/16 http://cleverjots.com/status/16#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:20:06 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/status/16 Cool single-function add-on Character Counter http://sn.im/charactercounter_addon displays the number of highlighted chars in your statusbar

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/16/feed 0 Podcast interview with David Grann, auth… http://cleverjots.com/status/15 http://cleverjots.com/status/15#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:42:20 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/08/podcast-interview-with-david-grann-auth/ Podcast interview with David Grann, author of the arson investigation gone wrong story, on left-hand sidebar of NewYorker.com. Recommended

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/15/feed 0 Trial by Fire http://sn.im/trial_by_fire… http://cleverjots.com/status/14 http://cleverjots.com/status/14#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:11:12 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/08/trial-by-fire-httpsn-imtrial_by_fire/ Trial by Fire http://sn.im/trial_by_fire by David Grann of @NewYorkerdotCom – thorough article about the death penalty in Texas.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/14/feed 0 Do you want a distributed Twitter site s… http://cleverjots.com/status/13 http://cleverjots.com/status/13#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:29 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/07/do-you-want-a-distributed-twitter-site-s/ Do you want a distributed Twitter site such as CleverJots too? Visit http://p2theme.com to familiarize yourself with the P2 theme.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/13/feed 0 Post on @ChrisSaad’s behalf. Hopefully … http://cleverjots.com/status/12 http://cleverjots.com/status/12#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:50:49 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/07/post-on-chrissaads-behalf-hopefully/ Post on @ChrisSaad’s behalf. Hopefully this one will make it to his Twitter stream.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/12/feed 0 I’m still figuring out which ways I can… http://cleverjots.com/status/11 http://cleverjots.com/status/11#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:52:01 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/07/im-still-figuring-out-which-ways-i-can/ I’m still figuring out which ways I can update the new CleverJots micro-blog. It seems tweets submitted on the regular Twitter web interface are not syndicated onto CleverJots. I’ll figure out now if that’s at all possible, as I’m pretty attached to it.

]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/11/feed 0 Posterous-to-WordPress Updates http://cleverjots.com/status/10 http://cleverjots.com/status/10#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:43:22 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/2009/09/07/posterous-to-wordpress-updates/ Welcome to the micro-blog I created here on Posterous as part of carrying out the instructions in @Zee’s post Create your own version of Twitter with REAL status updates, a step-by-step guide to build an auto-archiving micro-blog, based on WordPress plug-ins, ping.fm and Posterous. If all works as planned, this post will show up on my self-hosted WordPress blog and a link to it will appear on my @CleverClogs Twitter account. Feel free to comment at the CleverJots maiden post CleverJots Micro-Blog Takes Off.

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]]> http://cleverjots.com/status/10/feed 1 CleverJots Micro-blog Takes Off http://cleverjots.com/status/5 http://cleverjots.com/status/5#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:56:17 +0000 Marjolein Hoekstra http://cleverjots.com/?p=5 This is the maiden post of CleverJots, my new micro-blog heavily inspired by @Zee’s step-by-step guide how to Create your own version of Twitter with REAL status updates, posted on The Next Web blog on Sept 4th 2009. If all works as planned excerpts of this micro-blog will be cross-posted to Twitter and to the Posterous blog CleverClogs All Sorts that I set up as part of the whole process. The two-way ping traffic is carried out  by Ping.fm and a couple of WordPress plug-ins. Read @Zee’s post for full details and links to each of these.

Besides the obvious publishing from the WordPress ‘Add New Post’ form, the system I have in place now offers  several alternative update methods: I can update this blog by composing a Twitter message, by posting directly to the Posterous blog, by submitting an update to Ping.fm, or by sending updates to a private e-mail address located on one of my own mail servers. I’m about to test-drive each of these in the next few hours.

Where I derail somewhat from Zee’s set-up is in how I set up the comments. I’ve followed JS-Kit Echo‘s launch in the past few months quite closely, and it seems like their Echo Live WordPress plug-in perfectly fits the purpose of the blog: to create a composite micro-blog, including live-updating replies from other social networks. As this blog is hosted on my own server, all updates are archived and can be searched. I’m using the Echo Live plan, which sets you back $12 a year.

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