Words & Tricks

A couple updates to Words & Tricks: Tweet Digest and Comment Love

Source: FlickrIn the interest of centralizing my online activities, and encouraging more participation in the comments section of Words & Tricks, I’ve made a couple small tweaks to the site.

First Tweak: Tweeting

Though I haven’t been able to find the time to blog regularly lately, I have found that posting to Twitter is fast and easy. I can even do it from my cell phone. So, I’ve installed the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin in order to collect my tweets each day and automatically post them as a digest, or roundup, to this blog.

This is experimental, since I don’t want to spam you, or my own blog with annoying daily messages that have little substance. After a couple weeks, please give me your feedback as to whether this feature is worth keeping.

Second Tweak: Editable comments that keep track of you

I’ve tweaked the comments section using the WP AJAX Edit Comments WordPress plugin to allow readers to edit their comments after they submit them. Misspell something? No problem! Your comment is editable for a brief time.

Also, in order to encourage commenting, please note that I installed the CommentLuv WordPress plugin. If you have a blog and enter its address in the URL field, CommentLuv will look for your RSS feed there, and pull the title of your most recent post to link to you comment.

Enjoy!

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All you Literature Lovers:Exclusively Available Here for a Limited TimeFree Poetry! Come and Get It Please

I’ve been unwilling to post my poetry to this blog as simply a text post, but I’ve wanted to share it with my readers for a while. So, I’ve come up with a compromise. I’ve uploaded and made available for free four of my poems at box.net, a handy little free Ajax-built file hosting/sharing website. They are in .pdf format, so you will need a PDF reader.

I’m going to keep them here and active until December 8th, 2006. If you know any other poetry lovers, or writers (and aren’t we usually one and the same?) please share this post and the link with them. I would love to here from you, as well.

What is strong, what is weak in these poems? What sorts of poetry do you like? Love? Rhymed? Dark? Prose? Found poetry? Share your interests with me and also, if you have any of your own poetry to share, please post a link to it in the comments section, or just email it to me.

Thanks.

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