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.

Welcome to our new blog! Our previous blog, the Overstream Muse, was mostly created out of necessity to keep you guys aware of the progress made in fixing the server after it went down and also during the server move. It’s retired now, although I am leaving it in place as an archive.

This blog (”The Thought Stream from the Overstream Team”) is going to contain a lot more. It will not only have news about what Overstream.net is up to, but also musings on the nature of online translation and video subtitling, useful links and other stuff. Also, I will not be the only one blogging, but some of the other members of the Overstream Team will be as well.

So, let’s get going and see what the future brings us!