i am soooo bleeding edge
It’s official, I am back on the bleeding edge of the internet. Yes indeed. I have officially signed up for a twitter account. You’ve been hearing about it for a while. Everyone is doing it… apparently. Tweeting. I’ve resisted for a good long time. But I’ve finally succumb to the big’ol internet and it’s new-fangled technology.
I have a plan though, so it’s not without good reason that I have signed up. You see, I have it in the plan to ‘Live-Blog’ the birth of my child. Come November, prior to Suzy going into labor, I plan to start the countdown on this very blog. And when we get to the actual event, the day (or days) of actual labor, I really want to post real-time updates replete with pictures to the internet so that friends and family can share in the experience from afar.
Here comes the technical rub. I’ve looked into the ‘live-blogging’ plug-ins for WordPress (the software that this blog runs on) and I was a bit overwhelmed with the complexity that I’d face setting up such a system. And, with people re-loading the page frequently, the site might actually buckle under the bandwidth pressure (that might be an overstatement, but it’s possible!). So instead, I’ve come up with another third-party and entirely free solution. Twitter.
Twitter allows me to update the world, very easily, in real-time, from my iphone in chunks of 140 characters or less. It allows me to post pictures directly from my iPhone. It’s nearly perfect for my plans. It’s not quite as fancy as the Live-Blogging that Gizmodo or Engadget does for big tech announcements (like WWDC). But it’ll do the trick.
So folks, come November, when we hit the big day, look for my link to twitter where I will be giving the blow-by-blow updates of what’s going on in our delivery room. I am soooo bleeding edge.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Blow by blow, eh? If Suzy’s labor is anything like mine were (all three really), there will be a whole lot of nothing much to say for 8 or so hours and then so much that you won’t have time or desire to say it. I am eager to read it though!
July 25th, 2009 at 7:39 am
DAYS???? Oh, you’re going to be in trouble if you just jinxed me…
July 25th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Yup, blow by blow. You’re going to feel like you’re right there with us. Sort of.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Can you explain twitter just a bit? And I tried to embed a movie into my blog and it said I need to get a plugin that costs money. Is that true?
July 25th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Twitter is kind of like a micro-blog. Similar to FaceBook in that you can leave a small note regarding your status, you can basically do the same thing on Twitter in small 140 character-long updates. It’s actually not designed to do video or photos. There are other services out there that fill that gap. I’ll send you an e-mail about video on your blog.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I’m with Ingrid. Two out of my three were just like her labors… One, well, there just wasn’t enough time for anything! She was deturmined to come as fast as she could. Everyone was scrambling. During my last labor, it was so boring that Dad had resorted to taking pictures of the fetal monitor records! You also need to check with the hospital and their policies…if that is where she is going to have the baby. Some hospitals, like the one I went to, will let you take video up until the birth. Then video cameras need to be turned off. It sucks.