Blog before you Think!

lovely idea: Tiddly Backpack – reinterprets the metaphor of Backpack (notes, pages, drag & drop) as Tiddlywiki. Unfortunately it doesn’t quite work for my setup yet.

More (a tad outdated) TiddlyWiki fun here

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Twitter has added a useful parameter (in_reply_to_status_id) to its API which lets you indicate the specific tweet you are responding to. This is pretty cool since it also lets you reply without using the @username prefix.

It probably won’t take long until Twitter clients will pick it up, in the meantime: fire up a terminal and type:

curl -u username:passwort -d status="text of the message" -d in_reply_to_status_id="123456789" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

(you can find the status-id of the tweet you want to respond to at the end of its URL, see the screenshot below, and you need to use your username and password, of course)

At the end of the day all you need to manage your life is a single text file – and _ MyTextFile will give you no more and no less.

MyTextFile is a minimalistic online text editor for a single plain text file. If you want to go fancy you can chance the typeface/font size or the color scheme. MyTextFile also has built-in revision control and will autosave your document every five minutes. And that’s about it. I love it.

Well, this blog has been sleeping for a while. But sometimes the world throws a coincidence at you, and it makes sense to pick it up and run with it.

In my very first post back in December 2004 I mentioned how del.icio.us and Gmail changed my work- and infoflows for good, and oddly enough they still do. Since del.icio.us was able to rejuvinate itself as shiny new Delicious, this might be a good trigger to relaunch Blog before you Think! too.

I’m not entirely sure where this will take me, but the topics should be about the same: useful new webtools, hopefully clever hacks on how to use them, a few links to interesting stuff, etc. I’m involved in a few other blogs and I contribute my fair share of cool hunting at the Museum of Modern Betas so the posting frequency here probably will be relaxed, but hopefully consistent.