Twitter with Twitterfeed: Listening to: and Reading:

Last week, thanks to @schnitzer’s recommendation, I checked out and eventually set up my blog on Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed allows you to enter RSS feeds and have new items come through as tweets on your twitter account. So, for example, I have this blog’s RSS in there, so whenever I post something, within a half hour, my Twitter account will auto tweet: “New Blog Post: __” where __ is the title.

I was trying to think of how else to utilize this, because it’s pretty powerful and handy. I was thinking about how people often put on their Twitter accounts “Reading: ” or “Listening to: ” whatever. So, I created a tag in my Delicious called twitterfeed_listening and twitterfeed_reading. So now, if I’m listening to something on YouTube that I want to tweet I’m listening to, I’ll save it on Delicious and tag it twitterfeed_listening, then TwitterFeed will post that to my Twitter with the prefix “Listening to: “

Okay, just tested it and it works. Here’s the tweet and here’s the tag on Delicious.

*Thinking of how else Twitterfeed could be used… *

An Old Mix

I’ve been listening to a bunch of old CDs at work and popped this one in just now. It’s a mix I made senior year of high school. I’m now listening to the words, analyzing why I chose the songs I did. It’s like a mini-conversation with my 17 year-old self.

“Like A Stone” – Audioslave
“Ohio” – CSNY
“Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure/Don’t You Just Know It” – Dr. John
“I Got Id” – Pearl Jam
“Army” – Ben Folds Five
“Yellar” – The Bogmen
“Where Is My Mind” – Pixies
“Be My Angel” – The Toadies
“Rapper’s Delight” – Sugar Hill Gang
“Matrix” is what I wrote on the CD. It’s a short, weird techno song that I guess was from The Matrix.
“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” – The Band
“Do The Evolution” – Pearl Jam
“Parents Just Don’t Understand” – Will Smith
“Mrs. Jackson” – Outcast
“El Scorcho” – Weezer
“ATLiens” – Outcast

Great Frederick Fair

This past week Frederick has been centered around the Great Frederick Fair. I heard on the radio this morning that this is the 147th one. That is crazy. Steph and I haven’t stopped by to check it out this year, and with tomorrow being the last day we probably won’t, but it’s still been nice to drive past on my way home and see all the little kids excited to make it through the front gate and get on the rides they saw driving in on the main road. Today, school’s are closed and the Fair is likely packed with small groups of teenagers waiting in roped-off lines with kids half their age for their turn to ride the Scrambler.  By Monday morning, the Fairgrounds will look like they do the other 350 some days of the year.

Landen’s Postcard – 5

New Victor and Landen: Landen’s Postcard.

Unfamiliar with Victor and Landen? Here’s the first comic.

Spamming Spammers

Do spammers get spam?

What would happen if for one day, everyone forwarded their spam emails BACK TO SENDER?

Or, if there were a script/Gmail Lab that said: if message lands in Spam, forward that message to address in original message’s From: field?

I don’t know how spammers set things up. Would this do anything? Could you DDoS them, sort of like what happened with Twitter? I’m sure there’s a big difference between requests for awebsite and emails in an inbox, though.

Hm, yeah, I don’t know. Just a random thought I had while unsubscribing some folks from our newsletter…