updating updates

I’ve been wanting to find some way to update my “status” in several different places at once. I had an inkling this could be done, but just didn’t take the few minutes needed to figure it out until now.

Today I played around with Twitter, Facebook, Jabber and my web site and got them all to play nice. Facebook is kinda cool, and I find myself using to see what my friends are doing. Twitter is kinda this out-there thing that I’ve not used hardly at all, but other people seem to just love it. My web site is, or I want it to be the hub of info about me. Updating FB and my site is a little much some times, and updating all three would be just too much, so my interaction with Twitter was non-existant. Twitter now kinda glues them all together, at least as far as making it easy to add small, timely updates.

Now I can send an instant message via Google Talk to Twitter with my status, and it’ll show up on Twitter, Facebook and my site simultaneously. How fun. Twitter uses Jabber to update your Twitter status, and Google Talk is a Jabber account/client. I can log in to my Google Talk account via iChat (on the Mac) and send an instant message without visiting the web. There’s also Twitter functionality to send an SMS from your phone and it’ll do the same thing. But for some reason, Twitter wants to send SMS message to your phone, and I have to pay for each SMS, so it’s not really worth it. Maybe one of these days I’ll see the need for that.

Here’s a fun picture of Tyler about to smash the shit out of a piñata on his birthday.

So, since you’re reading this – from now on if you want to see what hopefully will be the most recent update … look in the sidebar -> for the snippet titled “Most recently …” and it should show what my status is! And hopefully I will have updated sometime in the recent past. Look now and see what’s up!

My thought just now is, what about having my status at the time automatically inserted into my blog posts. For instance, right now, my status is “Getting ready for a small party at my place tonight! Probably will be some good food, some travel discussion, good wine and skip-bo!” Why would I want to do this? I guess because it’s timely? and might have something to do with the post? Maybe not? Maybe that’s overkill?