Many things I wanted to mention probably got lost. So I’d like to recap:

The good

• President Obama Signs U.N. Convention On Rights Of Disabled Proclamation
• We joined the Deaf Twitter Group

The uncertain

• COATAccess (of which Overstream is a member) and Jamie Berke (whom we are reading) are doing a great job in getting HR3101 to pass.
• The House of Lords recommends video embedding recommended for Parliament videos — we need to make sure captioning is included.

The amusing

• To our Russian-speaking readers, we’d like to point out a great blog run by an Overstream user and dedicated to translating comedy sketches from around the world: http://sketch-comedy.blogspot.com/

If we may be so bold as to flatter ourselves that there are those that care, we’d like to explain a bit on recent posts.

• The nature of blogging and Twitter is such that Twitter Tools in the Twitter-to-Wordpress direction don’t make for good reading. Although some improvements can be made here:
  • Some ad hoc (yet laconic) syntax hints that some words plus the accompanying link should be translated to an <a href=”link”>text</a> structure in the blog.
  • Some sort of querying the URL shortening service for the original URL (because some die-hard verbose bloggers hate this part of Twitter and refuse to click on some obscure URLS. I can’t say that I necessarily blame them.
  • An option in Twitter Tools to make Twitter digest go into a draft instead of a published post.
  • This was not helped by my ill-fated decision to pipe the feed of newly created Overstreams right into our main Twitter account. The noise was, well, deafening, pardon the pun.

  So, at least until the above-made WIBNI (”wouldn’t it be nice?”) suggestions for blogging/Tweeter integration are done, we’ll tread carefully and will:

  • @Overstream on Twitter is still the Tweet Stream from the Overstream Team. The feeds with latest Overstreams, updated many times daily, are now available from @captioned on Twitter for those that want it — and we see that quite a few of you do!
  • In general, render unto Twitter that which is tweeted, and render unto WordPress that which is… well… more coherent.

Although a bit belatedly, we still would like to wish Merry Christmas to all of you! (And thank you, atrude777, for this Overstream).