Facebook and followers

28 February 2009 Rob Buckley TMINE 18 Comments

A very slightly exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to log in to the blog with your FaceBook account and have your profile pic and a link to your profile appear next to your comments (comme ça). There’s a very slight formatting issue and it goes a weird if you log out, but it seems to work fine otherwise.

A very slightly less exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to ‘follow’ the blog using the widget underneath the Recent Comments/News/Latest/Popular/Tags thingie in the sidebar. I think it means you get to find out when there’s an update or something, but I guess it’s also a way of showing support in a Web 2.0 sort of way.

Let me know if you have any problems.

UPDATE: If you want to link to a site other than your FaceBook profile such as your blog, let me know, either directly or in your first comment, and I’ll make it so – as I’ve just done with Marie’s comments (fingers crossed).

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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