Since I’ve taken up Twittering with what seems to be a reasonable amount of frequency, I had added the Twitters I… twitter into the list of posts. Previously just the latest was at the top of certain pages. I’ve also moved the “seconds until retirement” counter — which is still going strong — to the right into the side menu bar.

I’ve given the Twitter posts a distinctive look; since they’re a lot shorter they don’t need as much information crowding them. There are still a few problems to resolve which mainly involve removing Twitter posts from a lot of places — they appear in the RSS feeds if you’re already subscribed (if you resubscribe using the links on the page you’ll not get the Twitters any longer), the Twitter posts count towards the “seven posts per page” which I don’t want (I want seven posts per page plus any Twitters inbetween, which isn’t as easy as it seems using Wordpress’ API) and finally the Previously/In History need to have Twitters removed also.

I am thinking about other possible integrations in the future. Examples include Facebook updates (though I also never use it), some sort of public bookmark creation (I don’t use one of these services at the moment) and maybe something else which follows me around. The idea is not just to have a list of posts on the site but sort of a “What’s Mike up to?” stream from around the place. Whether it’s easy or will even work remains to be seen.

Other work includes joining the flickr and regular comments (where relevant) into one comment stream, but this is a bit of work (involving merging two arrays into one with lots of error correction for busted Internet connections) and since it’s already working it’s way down on the list of stuff to do.

Also: ScribeFire — look it up.