I’m a huge fan of Pinboard.in for online bookmarking. Maciej is an awesome developer, has a strong business model1 (so he has no reason to sell your data), and delivered an open API. You can link your account to Twitter2, Instapaper, and Pocket; and also set your account to be completely private.3 There’s even the fun story of the Great Delicious Exodus of 2010. It also provides an easy way to start link blogging on Micro.blog via its RSS Feeds. If you want to send everything (I don’t recommend this) and have a public account, it’s as easy as adding https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:username/4 to your feeds in the same manner as WordPress. I’d recommend choosing a tag, like to_blog,5 and creating a feed just for that: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/t:to_blog. If you want to have more options, you can use up to three tags: http://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:username/t:tag1/t:tag2/t:tag3/. Warning: I do not recommend using private feeds. @smokey let me know that future Micro.blog features may reveal them. If you’ve set up your account to be private, creating the feed is slightly more complicated. You have to add your authentication token6 to the address: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/secret:xxxx/u:username. I would definitely use https here and if someone gets a hold of your…
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Firefox is seriously tempting me away from Safari. I don’t use Facebook much, but having it quarantined when I do is an awesome idea. +1 for @mozilla!
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.@manton already mentioned this, but great response by Apple to the current brouhaha around iPhone battery throttling. If you have a 6 or 6S, it definitely makes sense to replace the battery once the price drops to $29. I certainly will.
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I find myself softening my stance towards emoji. I’ll occasionally use them in iMessages and Slack cheers, but I’m holding fast against their intrusion into blogging & microblogging!
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So why can’t @Dreamhost handle simply uploading photos to a WordPress blog on shared hosting. It’s so frustrating.
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So I want to use the Micro.blog app on iOS to post directly this blog. I had set up my account to use a tag based feed, but that wouldn’t work. A post type feed would though, so let’s see if this gets through.
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Wonder if I can set up Drafts to send posts to WordPress? Right now I’m using the WP app on iOS and it sucks to not have a character count. @manton, does the Micro.blog app allow titles, categories, and tags to be sent to a WordPress blog?
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Thinking about where to do my microblogging. Right now, most of it lives as status posts here on my main blog, with a few specific (mostly long post announcements) going to my Micro.blog hosted site. Should I cross post statuses there? Or switch, leaving here for long form?
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So, syndicating from my website to Micro.blog works great. The last couple posts had some trouble being translated to Twitter though. @manton, probably my fault between the character count and the links. @Twitterrific saved the day with delete-and-edit.
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I know I’ve mentioned this before and @danielpunkass has far bigger fish to fry, but, after using WordPress’ web interface, I yearn even more for @MarsEdit on the iPad.
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