My microblogging flow

I have been playing with Applescript in order to tie together various applications and services: write once and publish everywhere. This is geared to my Mac environment, but might offer some ideas for other environments as well.

I use Quicksilver to create my microblog item, my tweet. Launching this app by clicking opens a window, by pressing '.', I can create my tweet, then press to go to the command part. Now I type either N, 'T' or O and in order to start the publishing process. All in all this is very quickly.

Whether I press N, T or O depends on what I have been doing. T is for a context-less tweet. N will add the URL of the RSS-item I am reading in NetNewsWire and O does the same for my browser OmniWeb. These are context-rich tweets and allows me to create intertwingled micro-threads. So this process will get my tweet, get an URL, get the music I listening to from iTunes and my current location from Plazes.

Then this information is uploaded to Twitter, Jaiku and my own microBlog. And I can add more publishing locations if I want.

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