Sean Reiser

Although the situation in Mumbai is still unfolding I've been reflecting on I consume news has changed in the past 7 years. I'm finding the difference in how I consume news and media interesting and a major statement on what's going on in technology.

On 9/11 when I finally found my way back home, like many Americans (and I assume world citizens) I sat in front of my television set and watched the news. Where I did read some news sites and blogs the main source of the information I was getting was from the television and radio. The internet provided supplemental information but the primary information came from more traditional sources.

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!<!--block-->

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>

The Story so far
By extreme stupidity I managed to flood twitter using drupal's twitter module installed on http://seanreiser.com My problem was that the twitter module tweets every new node, not ever new front page story as I thought.

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.