Well, it's now 2009. With another year just begun, it's time for me to start looking at what I want to accomplish this year. Hopefully I'll do a much better job of things in '09 than I did in '08.

Remember what I said in my New Years post about releasing something big and serious? Well, it might be a bit premature to mention this, but a friend and I are looking at throwing together a social site built around a certain type of activity. (No, it's not sex.) Details are (purposely) light at the moment, but as things progress I'll be talking more and more about it, no doubt.

So, which podcasts does everyone listen to? I'd like to know what podcasts might be of interest to add. Currently, I'm already listening to the following:

Nick O'Neill over at AllFacebook has an interesting idea — Facebook could trounce Twitter if they would only add the ability to fetch status updates from their API. Interesting idea… but so very, very wrong.

I'm not a professional blogger. It would be nice, but with my plodding pace of posting (and the miserable income I get from ads — been on AdSense since 2007 and still haven't made even $10) it's not happening.

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Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.

I just put out a new version of the Tweetbacks module I put online on Friday. The download URL is now <http://drupal.org/node/357978/release>. This new version includes support for all of the options for Dan Zarrella's Tweetbacks system, although described in slightly different terms.

Download it, and have fun!

UPDATE: Tweetbacks is now on drupal.org! It will be a little while before builds start appearing but from now on, project development will happen there. If you are interested in helping me maintain this module, let me know. Also, there are a couple little bugs in the version currently available on this site. Please wait for the fresh drupal.org build to show up; when that happens I'll be taking down the file from here.

UPDATE 2: Builds are now appearing on Drupal.org. I've removed the download from here, so you'll want to go to the actual project page from now on.

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Dan Zarrella, the social media pro who created Tweetbacks, released yesterday a new Wordpress module which encompasses Tweetbacks and even more Twitter functionality for blogs. Called TweetSuite, this add-on brings in things such as a "ReTweet This" button for each post in the Tweetback list, as well as a Digg-style badge for blog entries.

So now, I'll have to add all these features to the Drupal Tweetbacks module.

One of the TweetSuite functions I won't have to implement, however. The Twitter module for Drupal already handles sending out a tweet whenever you create new content on a site, so anyone wanting that can use that module instead.

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I just finished working on the 0.10 release of my project Radio Alarm Clock. It's getting pretty close to finished (if a software project could ever be considered complete), and at this point there are only three things remaining before I'll bring it up to the big 1.0 version number:

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There's a bit of a row going on at the moment, thanks to Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel, about whether text or video is king of the internet. Guys, the answer isn't one or the other. It comes back down to who you want to see it.