Missionary Broadcasting.com

Much of our online activity of late has been made up of brief comments and links on the four social networking services that make up our FriendFeed. This service aggregates all of one’s internet publishing, placing it into a single, fairly straightforward feed and making it possible for visitors to keep up with what one is doing, reading, viewing or writing on a literally minute-by-minute basis.

I will be placing the above “widget” in a prominent place on this site as soon as I have the opportunity to think it through. Until then you may view our FriendFeed at any time by visiting FriendFeed.com/MissionaryBroadcasting.

A few weeks ago I registered for a Twitter account, mainly so Deborah could keep up with what I was doing throughout the day at the office. Twitter is a microblogging application that asks “what are you doing?”; to which you can reply with a maximum of 140 words. I began posting with a Firefox add-on called TwitterFox. It is a great little program that appears in the bottom right corner of my browser, allowing me to type a quick note  while I work, which posts to my Twitter page immediately.

While I felt these notes might be of interest to those visiting this site, I have had difficulty finding a plugin for WordPress that does an adequate job of displaying them in my sidebar. In my pursuit to find just the right method, I came across an implementation on a tech site I often read called Scobleizer. Prominent blogger Robert Scoble shows all of his latest web activity via a service called FriendFeed. It captures and displays all his new entries in chronological order, whether they are from a blog RSS feed, a Twitter or other microblogging account, a Flickr photo stream, or a myriad of other social networking platforms.

Need a translation for any of this? Just visit our new FriendFeed and you should easily figure out what I am talking about. Here is a list of the various ways you can now stay connected with Missionary Broadcasting.com:

• Subscribe by RSS
• Subscribe by E-mail
• Our Twitter Account
• Our FriendFeed

Hopefully I can get a more Scoble-like sidebar application running within the next few weeks. Right now I have put in a request with our web host to upgrade the software we need to make it happen.