Wish TwitterFeed supported auto-hashtags

After using TwitterFeed for a while, it's really cool!  Props to betaworks for an awesome tool!

All I want now is auto-hashtag support.

Just look for the last line of a post that is only hashtags, and #dont #take #arbitrary hashtags from the #body of the #post.

Don't bother with trying to convert blog post tags into hashtags -- I want a different vocabulary of hashtags on twitter vs. tags on my blog.

#twfeed #hashtags

Subscribing to FamilySearch Updates

Keeping up with all that's going on at FamilySearch is harder than it needs to be, but I finally figured out how.

Most sites give you large categories of feeds to track, but FamilySearch has all of 14 different feeds, some of which overlap or not (the feeds are available by appending '/feed' to the URL).  But I couldn't find any "everything" feed URL.

Because I work for FamilySearch, and because I care about what goes on around me, I want to subscribe to everything, if only just to skim.  The most important announcements get forwarded through internal email, however the additional articles are very useful context, especially for an employee.

Unfortunately, the default "subscribe" link just subscribes you to feeds #2, #3, & #4, or Indexing, Record Search, & Indexing, respectively.  The "Subscribe" link is visible on an individual article's page, but isn't even present on the main blog page.

Here is the feed link you can put in your feed reader to subscribe to everything:

• https://www.familysearch.org/taxonomy/term/1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14/0/feed

When feed/category/blog #15 gets defined, this feed URL will be invalid again.  Maybe there is a better way.  If anyone knows a better way, please let me know.

I want an "everything" subscribe link that I won't have to update in my feed reader, or maybe an "everything but trivia" link.

Link to Paper

Dear Lazyweb,

I've wanted to link to pages of books, or at least down to the chapter, or subhead.

Take, for example, the following blog post:

http://deliberate-thinking.blogspot.com/2010/04/reality-quotient.html

In that post, I refer to printed, copyrighted content by URL, but with lame google books URLs that have nothing to do with the structure of the book, and that border on the potentially problematic situation traditionally called "deep linking".

Look for the following text in the blog post:

• text: Total Useful Mental Discriminations
• and link: http://books.google.com/books?id=563gvssRPvkC&lpg=PR1&dq=slack&pg=PA72#v=onepage
• text: capable people are credible
• and link: http://books.google.com/books?id=31Qe_e61Y10C&lpg=PP1&ots=bBbef5O2a3&dq=speed%20of%20trust&pg=PA92#v=onepage

Do you know of any way that I can manage a list of URLs per book that are just markers for the sections within that book?

Not page linking, but sections as defined by the work itself.  No content extraction except perhaps to put the subhead text in the URL itself (either in English, or in the work's native language, or both).  Now there would be a global permalink for a given chunk of a work.

So, as an example of what I'm shooting for, the following author has already done this with his book:

http://book.personalmba.com/bootstrapping/  (full of promotional material)

Even though this page is full of promotional material, the link itself has value, because now I can refer to that small section of the book and talk about my own ideas, relative to that section.

And I can do so in a web-friendly way, with a meaningful URL.

The closest think I found was OpenLibrary itself with canonical URLs to Works and Editions.  But has anyone done "link to paper" in a general sense?

Sincerely,
John...

Any reason not to post this?

I remember reading Tim Bray's first post at Google, specifically the part that talked about continuing to post without editorial comments from his employer.

It was then that the whole Cluetrain Manifesto finally clicked for me.

And I realized that the real question wasn't:

Would this topic be something I could post on my blog?

but was really a quick:

 Any reason not to post this? (right before hitting the Publish button)

 Seems like I've been kind of dense about this sort of thing.

Blog by writing post titles

I got sick of trying to think of profound things to say here.

So I just started writing post titles until I found a topic I wanted to write about. Maybe that is what I can do the next time I'm feeling like a post is over-due.

Past Bylines

Here are past bylines of this blog (in reverse chronological order):

• [Mar. 2009] Alma 34:38: Live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you.
• [Feb. 2009] 1 Tim 4:15: Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. (KJV) -- too overreaching

Opening Post

Some kind of inhibition? Write until it goes away.

Can't sleep? Write until you can.

Can't code? Write until you know what to do.

Stuck on a problem? Write until the problem is defined.

Unlike prior efforts at perfection, this blog is a work-in-progress. And unlike my prior standalone efforts, I hope to start deliberately existing in a much larger world.