Now on Twitter

[Harper Ganesvoort]

I'm finally giving in. I've hauled myself (virtually, of course) over to Twitter and signed up for an account there. Since I don't write an article for this ravenous creature called a blog every day, but I'm in world almost every day, I figured it would be a good way to let my dedicated readers know that I'm actually doing something between longer writing sessions. Especially on weekends, when I can't always get to the keyboard for extended periods, due to family demand on the single computer in the house.

Of course, the best laid plans of mice and men.... The widgets for Twitter are like the widgets for Ning -- they're scripted. The idea, of course, is that Twitter is a dynamic service, and the widget would automatically update when you post a fresh tweet. But this blog is (currently) hosted on wordpress.com, not .org, which means that scripts are a no-no. It's for our safety, of course; there are Evil Scripts out there. But it still gets frustrating when I have a neat widget that can't run. If this was a self-hosted blog, it would be no problem; you can run scripts in your widgets and plugins on a self-hosted wordpress.org blog, since it's not on Matt's own servers. I'm not quite to the point of committing to an expense for what's essentially a diversion enterprise.

Time will tell if that changes. For now, I'm sticking with the free service. So, if you're interested in following my tweets, or even Following them, head for my page at Twitter. I've just started, of course, so there's not much there yet. But give me time, give me time....