Conor’s Bandon Blog

Then LouderTweets are for you.

After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice.

So far we’ve had reviews of chocolate, couscous, a conference, a lawnmower and many others. Make your Tweets Louder!

An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets but you should join if you want to rate, bookmark and build/share useful collections of reviews and mini-reviews.

And how do you send LouderTweets as a Twitter user? It’s very simple:

1. Add the Twitter “review” user as a friend here
2. Wait until you get a confirmation that you have been added back as a friend
3. Post reviews using this format on Twitter: @review RATING ITEM. REVIEW
4. Example: @review 4 The Apprentice UK. A stonkingly good series that has thrown up plenty of surprises
5. That format is very specific otherwise we won’t pick up the review. Rating is in the range 1-5. Full-stop/Period mandatory.
6. Shortly afterwards that review can be found by searching on www.loudervoice.com (in an open community microformat called hreview)

You can see an example here:

Tweet: http://twitter.com/oldchapel/statuses/101344802
LouderVoice: http://www.loudervoice.com/search?q=tesco+chocolate

As with all tweets, you can send your review tweet using whatever tool you like: web-page, Google GTalk, SMS, Tweetr etc

Let us know what you think.

If you are not a geek, stop reading now. Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) did a Tweet earlier pointing to a theme for WordPress. I just checked it out. I am so in awe of this person.

It is a Commodore 64 Command Line Interface to a blog.

Try typing last, next, current, help or cat

Someone somewhere please please do a ZX Spectrum version of this.

UPDATE 1: Ach, just realised Chris must have seen it on Boing Boing.

I’ve set-up a new blog which consists entirely of daily digests of my tweets. So rather than seeing every tweet as a separate feed item, this groups them together into more manageable chunks. You can get to it either via www.conoroneill.com/twitter or www.conoroneill.name

It was an interesting bit of fun but I don’t think the daily Tweet digest was a great addition to this blog. However, if you are still interested in the Tweets themselves, you can subscribe via RSS to the feed here. I may set up a separate simple blog which does the daily digest. If I do, I’ll pop a link here.

• Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire passed the time. Another late night. Back to Bandon in the morning #
• Wow, Rosslare to Bandon 100% improvement in cop coverage. One at Carrigtwohill, Ka-Ching and one in Innishannon, Ka-Ching-Ching #
• One other cop – tailgated me for two miles out of Kilmeaden. Finally I pulled into hard shoulder and he passed at 70mph. Late for lunch? #
• Fantastic weekend with family. now back to work. #
• Forget the web, wife should become a professional gambler and support us all. Just won a few bob on the Grand National. #
• Amanda Peet is one of the most under-rated actresses doing both movies and TV in the past five years. Yeah another enjoyable Studio 60. #

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• Gosh the bloggysphere must all have taken an easter holiday. It’s soooo quiet out there. #
• Easter Egg Hunt starting soon. Oisín worried they’ll be put in the dogrun and the dogs will get them. He should be more worried about adults #
• Dear PaddyLazyWeb, is there any way of putting a .forward on a free eircom.net email account? #
• @topgold, no time to read Damien, too busy online #
• Balmy. Horrible winter forgotten already. #
• Learning all about XBox modding. Oscar decided he wants modded old-school XBox instead of Wii for birthday. Suits me, €100 less! #
• @donncha – InPhotos.org a bright spot on an otherwise dull bloggy day. Off to a Folk Park to non-twitter for a few hours. #
• Sunday Independent plagarising blogs after doing a hatchet job on them recently. As I said then, smell the fear. http://tinyurl.com/yoobcc #

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• Wow, 6 of us in room and they all slept despite their daddy’s snoring. Up 7.20. Sooo glad weather is good so they can play outside #
• Spam gone mental in the past week and Akismet letting quite a bit through. Added Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behaviour to blogs to assist #
• Why does Bad Behaviour cause 400 Error on conoroneill.com but not on argolon.com or blog.loudervoice.com? No joy on google #
• FON up and running between Rosslare and Tagoat. Only €3 per day. All proceeds go to the conoroneill benevolent fund. #
• Both CBS in US and BBC in UK refuse to stream Amen Corner live to Irish IPs for my Da. The joy of web-proxy sites! #
• Nephew just pointed out that web proxies are how they get around all the lockdowns on their machines in school! #
• Bandon to Rosslare. One cop at Carrigtwohill at the site of that lethal piece of arrow straight dual carriageway where no-one has ever died. #
• 22 year old french wine. Strange crust on cork. Not great but drinkable. Oldest wine I’ve ever quaffed. Thanks Dad. #

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• I can’t stop thinking of the word Payola. Anyhoo, off to Rosslare en famille to go to a house with 18 people! #
• 4 out of 5 in bed despite noise of 14 other people. FON nearly live in Rosslare. Kids lovin hanging out with all their cousins #
• Sifry to step down as CEO of Technorati? Wow, the rumours were true. No smoke etc. #

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• 7-year old has discovered “am I bovvered”. Promised to show him Catherine Tate vs Doctor Who on Comic Relief #
• Can we have an EU-wide referendum to ban the use of the phrase “I’ll give it 110%”? Particularly on The Apprentice #
• Running Thunderbird 2.0.0pre. Rock solid and fewer problems than 1.5. Still has stupid “new mail notification” bug when spam is filtered. #
• considering using GMail fulltime but with backup using fetchmail to grab everything via POP and store on server here #
• @imeallach : trust no-one! My data on my machines is the rule I live by. I just let others “borrow” it. #
• Hope Google MyMaps isn’t bad news for Click2Map as I really like their product. #
• Azureus -> Zudeo -> Vuze. Whatever ya wanna call it. New site vuze.com #
• This time tomorrow Rosslare will have its first FON access point. Should have coverage of up to 3 or maybe even 4 houses #
• Nice bit of TJAMC to block out sound of fighting children outside so I can get to grips with Spam Karma 2 on WPMU #
• Tina Turner “River Deep Mountain High” – In my top ten of all time. Even the crappy non-Spector version I’m listening to now. #
• So now I know what journalistic integrity and factual reporting looks like, I think I’ll stick to the wild west of blogs. #

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• The Jesus and Mary Chain are playing Electric Picnic 07. I felt too old for outdoor gigs at Guns n Roses in 1992, what hope now? #
• it really does look like the non-stop bluescreening on my as-new Latitude D420 was due to Vista. XP rock solid on it. Damn, I like Vista. #
• All Google properties down or Cork routing problem? #
• Woo hoo, back on top for google search of “Conor O’Neill”. In constant war with pub chain of the same name in USA. Blog Awards did the trick #
• Co-incidence? You decide. http://tinyurl.com/y9dchw and http://tinyurl.com/2nd3nk #
• How much does Vodafone Ireland charge you and caller if you set redirect on your mobile to landline? Or to Skype-In? #
• @damienmulley – eircom upgraded exchanges to what? 24MBs broadband for everyone? #
• Courtesy of Sweary: http://tinyurl.com/2qawa4 . This is the “next python” stuff I was talking about recently. Up with this kind of thing! #
• Nice cuppa tea and a biscuit with TSL, TSG and MiniMe. We’re awfully civilised down here in Cork. #
• Looking at world map on kid’s wall. Scranton is marked in the USA. The equivalent of Slough in the US Office. Maybe not so small after all. #
• Bloody chocolate manufacturers. Why aren’t the sweets inside the easter eggs like they used to be? Surely slave labour could do it cheaply? #

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