Activity Stream

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

As has been documented, I have been playing around with putting a presence aggregator on this site.  I've hacked around with the drupal activitystream module and came up with this.  It's still very alpha, and subject to change but as time goes by.  For example, I'm pretty sure I'm removing the list controls to get rid of the useless bullets (the icons are much better then the bullets in this case).  When I have all my changes in place I'll post the code.

First off, I'd like to make things perfectly clear, I use both my blog and twitter as a place to test technologies. There's always a possibility that something I do will cause a minor explosion. It happens rarely, but every now and then it's going to and I apologize in advance for this. This is a bit of a playground for me.

As is painfully obvious to my twitter-peeps last night there was a bit of a mishap involving twitter and my blog. In a period of a minute I basically retweeted my last hundred tweets or so. I'm posting what happened here so folks having similar issues can see what went on and how I'm handing it in the future and possibly some changes I'm making to the drupal modules in question.

So... on to my story. A few days ago I posted an entry about making my blog the center of my web presence basically adding friendfeed style features into my blog and using seanreiser.com as hub to access my online content.. While doing some research I found a drupal module named activity stream which grabs content from a number of services, creates drupal nodes for them and creates a stream for your site. It also accepts RSS and has a plugin system that allows you to create interfaces for services that it currently doesn't support. So, last night, being the curious person I am, I decide to install the module on seanreiser.com's drupal install and check it out.