Housecleaning and Facelift

I have made peace with /message being hosted on Typepad. It is just impossible to imagine moving it. If anything, I may at some time start a new blog, but in the meantime, this is what I have arrived at:

• All the current blogging platforms lack the features I would like to have, unless I go down to the bare metal and build my own social foundation. And of course, if I did that, no one else would be using it, so the social aspect would fail. Unless I were to develop it as a plug-in, like JS-Kit or Disqus. And I don't want to have to invent everything in order to have a blog.
• I have pulled out the Disqus commenting system, because it didn't offer that much, and it was just an additional headache. I pulled it out of my Tumblr blogs a few weeks ago, but for somewhat unrelated reasons: it doesn't gibe with the Tumblr sharing model, really.
• I think of my blog increasingly as a tool to craft long-form posts, but which will be distributed and commented on elsewhere, such as Twitter. What i would like -- and wish that Typepad would give me -- is the ability to display tweets that refer to a post -- but I don't want to have to hack my templates to do it. So someone has to work with SixApart to make it a plugin.

To those folks whose comments were in Disqus for anything posted here since I started using that system, apologies. Your comments are still in Disqus, undeleted.

Comments

[Furqan Nazeeri]

Stowe, have you checked out Tweetboard as a tool to link blog posts and Twitter? Not exactly what I'd like (linking specific posts to specific tweets) but close.

[Stowe Boyd]

Yeah, thanks.