Thanks to the comment-aggregating masterminds at BackType, your tweets, FriendFeed comments, Digg comments, and other mentions of blog posts here at jaredwsmith.com will appear among the comments. I’m tweaking the look some and working with a few things to meld it better with the design, but it’s very cool. How am I doing this? It’s a neat plugin called BackType Connect for WordPress. I definitely recommend checking it out especially if your blog manages to garner a lot of discussion on other sites (FriendFeed support is what dragged me in, really). I like what BackType is doing to tie together the scattered fragments of blog comments throughout the Web.
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This is exactly what I’m looking for. I’m very stoked!
Passed this along to some peeps. Thanks for keeping me in the relevant-to-my-bubble social media loop. Bubbles and loops. I may have mixed too many images here. Well, you gather my meaning. It’s round-ish.
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Michael, you’ll love it. I wish they had a few more template hooks to make it easier to customize (I have some decisions to make regarding my comment section now that I’d rather not make), but the functionality is solid (as you can see with Kim’s FriendFeed comment directly below yours, showing up very quickly after she posted there).
Jared: Thanks for checking out our plugin; glad you’re enjoying it so far. Please continue to send us feedback and let us know what kind of customization you’re looking for — we’ll do our best to include it in the next release of the plugin.
My friendfeed is locked, so if I knew it was going to break that barrier, I might’ve prepared a more astute comment. This BackType thang is powerful. KA-POW.
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Actually, comments on unlocked FriendFeed items still show; it’s just your feed that’s locked. Kind of confusing. Don’t worry, though — BackType’s not THAT powerful.
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Christopher, you’ve got it — I’ll send an e-mail you guys’ way soon with some ideas I have. Keep up the excellent work.