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		<title>It&#8217;s time to confess &#8211; Web 2.0 style</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day an idea for a new site hit me, and as I was waiting for some deliverables from a client to arrive and didn&#8217;t have much to do, I figured &#8211; what the hell. The site is called Twitfessions, and essentially it tracks and displays any Twitter tweets that are tagged with #confession. &#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="lightbox" href="http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/twitfessions-logo.jpg"><img src="http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/twitfessions-logo.jpg" alt="Twitfessions" width="200px" class="right" /></a>The other day an idea for a new site hit me, and as I was waiting for some deliverables from a client to arrive and didn&#8217;t have much to do, I figured &#8211; what the hell.</p>
<p>The site is called <a href="http://www.twitfessions.com" title="Tweet your secrets and your sins">Twitfessions</a>, and essentially it tracks and displays any Twitter tweets that are tagged with <strong>#confession</strong>. Basically it&#8217;s a fun way to relieve yourself of that little secret or unspoken sin you committed &#8211; in a very Web 2.0 way.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>, for those that don&#8217;t know, is a micro-blogging service &#8211; so, instead of bashing out a blog post of a few hundred words (or more), micro-blogging just captures your immediate thoughts, actions, etc.</p>
<p>I was a late adopter of Twitter, but have been addicted to it for a few months now. Incorporating Twitter with a Twitter client (a desktop program that posts your tweets) like <a href="http://www.tiptrickmod.com/2008/04/02/giving-twitter-a-twhirl/">Twhirl</a>, and you have blogging meets instant messaging.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a great way to keep up with what your friends are doing, but more so, it&#8217;s a fantastic way to keep posted on what&#8217;s happening in the world. These Olympics have been a great example of that &#8211; someone that I&#8217;m following on Twitter &#8211; many of whom are at the Games &#8211; will usually post about the latest medal standings, who won what, if there was a protest or controversy&#8230; using Twitter I&#8217;m always at the front-line of what was going on.</p>
<p>When the <a href="http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/2008/08/08/080808-everybody-ba-ba-ba/">#080808 tag</a> started on Twitter a couple weeks back it got me thinking about the different ways Twitter can be used.</p>
<p>I guess it was out of that thought that <a href="http://twitfessions.com" title="Twitter confessions">Twitfessions.com</a> was born.</p>
<p><a rel="lightbox" href="http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/portfolio-twitfess.jpg"><img src="http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/portfolio-twitfess.jpg" alt="Twitfessions Screenshot" class="left" width="200px" /></a>The project gave me an excuse to spend some more quality time with Drupal &#8211; a <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr> that I&#8217;ve only recently really started playing with (having converted the <a href="http://www.haohaoreport.com">Hao Hao Report</a> to Drupal not long ago).</p>
<p>Anyway, if you get a chance, check it out and let me know what you think. I should mention that much of the site&#8217;s design/layout is the A3 Atlantis theme by <a href="http://blamcast.net/">John at Blamcast</a>. I&#8217;ve customized a few bits to better suit my needs, but the heavy lifting was all done by him (beautiful theme John).</p>
<p>Oh, and if you&#8217;re a Twitter user &#8211; you can follow Twitfessions at the official Twitfessions Twitter page. And don&#8217;t forget to share your confessions by tagging your tweets with <strong>#confession</strong>.</p>
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