Educer » wordpress http://www.educer.org cooler than educr Tue, 18 May 2010 02:57:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The (De) Construction Of Twitter http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/ http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:50:54 +0000 jeremy http://www.educer.org/?p=182 $new_standard = strtolower("Twitter");

In the last couple of weeks, both WordPress and Tumblr have announced support for the Twitter API.

The immediate benefits are that any forward thinking Twitter client can now also be a WordPress or Tumblr client as well. Tweetie, one of the most popular iPhone clients, has had support for this for a while and immediately became the tool of choice for testing the new features out. Choices for users expand.

So, with that development aside, where next? I see three things.

1) WordPress should publish an official plugin for WordPress.org that enables the Twitter API for any blog. This act alone could create millions of possible twitter servers.

2) WordPress/Tumblr should make a big deal about how their new changes are also already tied in with real time protocols RSSCloud and pubsubhubbub. This helps make the new twitter servers real time.

3) Everybody outside of Twitter should huddle for a brief second and add some new syntax to the existing twitter api that allows for a piece of metadata to be attached (urls to start), call it optional, and implement.

Or, in short– Now that you’ve shown how easy it is to implement Twitter’s API, rip it out of their hands, build a new community, and then market the hell out of it.

]]> http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/feed/ 2 Godaddy Vs. WordPress 2.5.1 – htaccess http://www.educer.org/2008/05/30/godaddy-vs-wordpress-251-htaccess/ http://www.educer.org/2008/05/30/godaddy-vs-wordpress-251-htaccess/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 00:04:10 +0000 jeremy http://www.educer.org/?p=4 This is more of a reminder to myself than anything else, but WordPress was running slow as hell when I first installed it. After a couple hours and a bunch of page reloading while trying to configure everything, I ran into a 500 internal server error roadblock and couldn’t get anything to come up anymore at all.

Thanks go Google, I ran into this forum post right away, from which I gathered (without reading too deeply)– Godaddy’s PHP5 needs to be told to use itself or something, so I added this code to the .htaccess file:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

Seems to be working fine again, and it’s quick, quick, quick.

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