I received a few emails about my twit-out post and I figured while I don't won't post the address of the posters I would answer them publicly.  If you want to comment on my blog, please use comments and not email.  Thanks!

Subject: This is why!

Sean-

Twitter is down right now.  This is why we need to have a boycott.  Get it now?

<name redacted>

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Subject: It's not hard why don't you get it

We're protesting to get twitter fix their *%^!. 

<name redacted>

As regular readers of my blog know I'm using Drupal's ActivityStream module to power the Life Stream page on my site.  I've wanted to add an activity stream block and remove the twitter / lastfm blocks for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it until tonight.  It's a short function but I figure I'll post it in case someone else is looking for it.

Just add the following function to activitystream.module

Some posts this evening about a twitter boycott scheduled for 5/21 to protest the outages at twitter.  Where I'm all for protests that have some meaning, I really don't understand this one.  As far as I'm concerned a protest makes sense when a company's customers feel that the company is willfully mistreating them.  A perfect example of this is the livejournal protest from last month.  LJ users felt that adding adverting without notifying them was unfair and protested.  Whether the protest was successful or not, is another question, not for this post.

So, I might seem to be the most fickle blogger on the planet but I am turning Disqus back on. There are a few things driving this:

Although this mentions Religion, it is really a Tech / soc networking post.

The other day I had a "conversion class" at Church with a group of people who are looking to either be received into the Church or for Adult Confirmation.  As we were leaving I mentioned to a couple of folks that someone reached my blog by goggleing "tom synan conversion" (Tom Synan was the Priest running the class), and I was curious if it was one of them.  Their answer baffled me, "I've never really understood, what's a blog"?  I resisted the urge to say "google it" and I did my best to explain blogging and the basics of social media. 

There are currently 3 feeds that I'm building and hosting here that I'm moving over to feedburner (mostly to preserve bandwidth).  I'll be setting up redirects but for now they are just being replicated.  The new links are as follows (I've updated the original posts as well):

So in the last few weeks I've taken on a few projects involving comments on seanreiser.com and it seems that they are conflicting with each other, and I've come to the decision that where I like disqus, I have to go back to the default Drupal comment module.

One of my tweeps @AnnOhio sent me a post card from her travels and while I was looking at it a flashed back to the QSL cards that HAM radio operators use.

For those who are interested, all my Dr Who Content is available here.

Spoilers, you have been warned

When I added disqus to seanreiser.com I thought it was simple, but one of my tweeps asked for a howto so maybe it wasn't . Also I seem to have had a few hits on from google searching on "disqus drupal". So for the curious here's are the steps I followed.