Law Students

(re)focusing

By Luis

Good friends know I’m a politics junkie. So I’m struggling this morning to reprogram my brain not to type http://pollster.com/blogs/ every 3-5 minutes. (XKCD, as usual, is on point.) I usually use a hacked up greasemonkey script for this, but today someone pointed me at leechblock, which looks completely awesome- lets you say ‘for this group of sites, if I go to them during this period of time, instead redirect me to something more useful.’ So, for example, will now block me from using my blog reader after 9am, and going to individual blogs or planets as well. I know other friends have this problem, so here you are. :)

Relatedly, my identi.ca posts are now getting filtered out to twitter and from there to facebook. I’m not really a fan of the conversational nature of these tools- if I’d wanted to have conversations/interrupts all day long I would have continued to use IRC. So I refuse to check any of the sites regularly, or use a tool that pops them up like an IM. That said, it seems obvious that if I participate in them at all as an author-publisher I’m going to continue to get interesting and sometimes very useful responses. (My election-morning dents garnered replies that included what would have been an interesting party invite and a strong memory from an old friend, but I didn’t see either until nearly 48 hours later.)

So here is the question- is there some sort of ‘delayed twit’ tool that will gather responses from identi.ca/twitter/facebook every… dunno, hourly or twice daily or something, and email them to me? I guess I can use one of the rss2email scripts, but if there is something more elegant, I’d love to know. (Yes, I know email is another form of interrupt, but it is one, centralized form of interrupt which I have decent tools for dealing with already.)

Full post as published by Luis Villa's Home Page on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).