Sean Reiser

When I added disqus to seanreiser.com I thought it was simple, but one of my tweeps asked for a howto so maybe it wasn't . Also I seem to have had a few hits on from google searching on "disqus drupal". So for the curious here's are the steps I followed.

A couple of folks have asked why I am basically reinventing friendfeed and presenting my lifestream on seanreiser.com.

Since the beginning of the year I've written 3 small scripts that create RSS feeds w/ media enclosures out of sources without such feeds. In some cases the scripts are a little wanky because they rely on screen scraping to get the job done. I hadn't released the code since I always planned on doing more with it. As I haven't gotten around to it, I suspect I never will. As the scripts are working I might as well release them to the world at large. This is not the best code I've written, it just gets the job done.

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.