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I’ve never turned on Twitter syncing my Facebook status, I’ll be honest half of what I tweet I wouldn’t want as my Facebook status! Plus it would result in 20-30 status-updates a day!

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Devakishor posted (and tweeted) today a great solution to this, after asking his Twitter followers for a solution.

The solution to this appears to be Selective Twitter Status Application

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! With this installed, when I tweet something that I want to appear on Facebook, all I need to do is add #fb to the tweet!

Uh-oh! Mum’s at it again with yet another meme! This time she wants to know seven weird facts about me, I’m not so sure about this… I don’t class any facts about me to be “weird”…

Here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog. (iRamble) – Check
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog – some random, some weird – Well I’ll see what I can manage!
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog – 7? You’re having a giraffe aren’t you?
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog – oh heck that’ll confuse some of of this lot!!!

Here we go…..

1. I like the cold side of a pillow
   Come on now, that’s not odd, that should be downright normal for absolutely everyone!!!
2. Automation
   I love it, I’m a real geek for it. I’d automate everything if I could. I’ve practically got Emma convinced on the remote control light switches, and the entire house sound system now! Woohoo!
3. Blogging
   Unlike almost everyone else I don’t know why I write this blog… Other blogs have a specific purpose like making money, or self expression (or therapy in some cases). I’m not sure why I started Skillett.com I just did! It barely makes anything off the adverts, and is full of content.
4. Rain makes me nervous
   I have good reason…. Very good reason! I got married in the Great Floods of 2007 in Gloucester.We were getting married on the 21st July 2007, and on the 20th July 2007 the heavens opened, surrounding the village we were due to get married in!

   Needless to say some people almost didn’t make it to the wedding (myself included), my flat tyre on the morning of the wedding just continued the saga. However all but 4 people made it I think, and guess what – the most amazing day ever – made all the more special by the stories of how people had got there:
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   - Army Trucks
   - Nights in Crisis Centres
   - 21 Hours in a car from Newcastle.
   (Believe me – some of the photo’s are hilarious!!!)

   I somehow forgot about my nerves on the night before watching the Sea king helicopter land people in the hotel car park – as I rewrote my wedding speech from start to finish!

   I’m allowed to get nervous alright – it’s not “just a bit of a rain!“

5. Jim Carey
   I’m saying nothing more, just typing his name has made me cringe – I can’t stand him.
6. Trash TV
   Luckily I’m not alone on this one, the X-Factor makes me laugh, I think Strictly is brilliant and people wonder about my mental state, however Emma likes them as much as I do!
7. Weird Fact #7
   The reason it’s taken me weeks to post this is because I couldn’t think of #7, the rest of this was written before I went on holiday! As such I’m classing Weird Fact #7 writers block as my weird fact #7!

Oh I can’t think of anyone who might not have done it already…. I haven’t read enough blogs recently (see my last post!)

Update: I’ve actually had a request to be tagged! Here you go Tim.

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I was raving about BackType only last week both on Twitter and on this blog – It’s a great idea and the list of features they sent me this morning in their newsletter looked great!

FriendFeed
Not something I use, but I know a few people who do that will be pleased about this.

Alerts
I love my Google Alerts so this should be really useful for keeping up on what people are commenting on.

Twitter
Not sure I fancy every comment I make anywhere showing up in my twitter feed though!!

Widgets
Something Matt and I discussed, getting places where we’re commenting to show up on our blogs.

Developers
Aha an API, not that I’ll have time to use it but I know it’s there if I want it.

Trends
This will be interesting, Analytics for comments

This post nearly started off as rant, until I went and did a little digging – it seemed BackType wasn’t updating and had at least a week old comments for me! Then I remembered I had moderation of comments switched on!!!

I don’t get notification’s that there are comments for me to moderate there… Maybe I should turn off moderation for comments?

I registered with backtype the other day. I quite like it as a way of seeing where I’m commenting and on what!

Speed movie Matt pointed out that he couldn’t see the point of it, but I quite like the idea of using their widget to show other people what I’m commenting on and what I’ve said (beats a blogroll any day in my opinion!).

I went to post a comment on a website today, it was a Blogger one (I always dread this – it’s just not as easy as commenting on a WordPress blog is it?). This particular user had chose to allow comments from:

• Registered Google Accounts
• OpenID users

I usually just select the anonymous option and fill in the form, like I would a WordPress form – that was a non-starter.

I don’t want a WordPress hosted WordPress blog, so I need to do something else… I want my own OpenID!

Then I found eric’s post on Using your own WordPress URL as an OpenID!

A quick download and activation of the OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin, an account created with myOpenID and we’re away:

• Into the WordPress settings page to enable OpenID Delegation.
• Fill in myOpenID information…..

Wahey, all the way back the original blog and post my comment using my new “myOpenID persona”!!!

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Apparently all commentors fit into categories (via Alexia), which are you?

Also if you lurk here and read but don’t comment – what would make you comment (and which category would you belong in!?!?).

I’ve not posted since the 8th when I discussed making money on Twitter, I’ve twittered a bit (as I’ve found I can do that whilst I’m messing with other bits and bobs!), made some new Twitter friends…

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I’m wondering whether I should integrate Twitter more tightly with this blog for weeks like this, does anyone know any good tools for doing this?

I already use Twitter Tools, to get my latest Twitter “Tweets” under “What I’m doing…” on the right, it’s capable of converting all my tweets into blog posts (that would seem daft given the randomness of my Tweets in just 160 characters!), and I definitely don’t want it posting a daily digest (the updates wouldn’t make sense to half the people!).

How do you integrate Twitter with what you do and your long term blogging goals?