1. An experiment

    I love Tumblr… I love it alot… It’s probably the easiest blogging experience I’ve come across yet. Unfortunately though, Tumblr lacks a few of the key features I expect from a blog, and commenting is one of these.

    I know there’s “platform agnostic” solutions like Disqus out there, but I want to try something new. The answer? Twitter based responses…

    Twitter is such a powerful conversation platform. It makes sense, to me anyway, to leverage this. So you’ll notice the “Tweet a response” and “Existing responses” links at the bottom of the post, they’re my very first attempt at integrating Twitter for comments.

    There’s a few limitations. Firstly, there’s no inline commenting. I didn’t want to faff about with oAuth when I can just link to the Twitter page with the status input pre-populated with the necessary “machine tagging”. On that note, the implementation of the machine tagging is crazy simple. Simply @chrsgrrtt (So I can see new comments as @replies) followed by the ID of the post, for showing comments attached to a post in search results.

    I may go further with implementation in the future, maybe parsing the search results JSON to display comments in the page. Who knows, we’ll see…

    Tweet a response / Existing responses

Who am I? I’m a father, digital product designer and developer, building businesses that follow the small giants philosophy.

I’m director of Abstraktion, a small studio providing unprecedented web application design and development.

I’m currently building Podchains, a version control application for Video Projects.

I’m strategic director at Bex Media, a video production company specialising in web enhanced media. We also stream live events and performances.

Above all else, I have the cutest daughter in the world!

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