Elizabeth November 5th, 2007

No doubt my many eagle-eyed readers (ie: Ralf, and… Ralf) will have noticed that I have been tinkering with this site over the past couple of days. Well, unless he reads everything via his rss reader. Le sigh.

Let’s start this again.

Scarlet Words is bigger! and better! with the addition of a couple of shiny new gimmicks in the sidebar. First of all, I finally got around to signing up for Twitter, so now you can see some short updates of what I’m doing throughout the day. I can even update Twitter from my phone or via IM, so technically speaking I should be updating it ALL THE TIME. Only I’m not sure anybody cares, so I’ll just be doing it when I remember.

Twitter is pretty cool, though, and there are all sorts of related apps that draw upon its functionality. First of all I installed a client called Snitter, which sits in my taskbar and collects the ‘tweets’ of people I decide to follow. There’s a collection of other Twitter clients on their site too. It’s a friendly way to see how other people are spending their day, and sometimes leads to the discovery of other interesting stuff on the web.

A few other interesting Twitter-related links:

• Twitter etiquette

• Twittercal - update your Google Calendar from Twitter
• Twittervision - realtime ‘tweets’ displayed on a map
• MyChores - Use Twitter to help you keep track of your to-do list, and check them off as they’re completed

If you scroll further down the sidebar you’ll also see a new music player, c/o NaBloPoMo. It allows me to upload up to 100 songs that you can stream from my site, or download to your machine. Make the most of my incredible taste in music, and have a listen.

Time to head back to the couch, and cuddle up with Tim and our Very Clean Puppy. I’m just happy to have gotten this blog post in with 2 minutes to spare! It is way too early in the month to fail NaBloPoMo…

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