From Sampler to Sower

The concept is pretty simple.  What if you could go back in time one year and relive your life — at least the part of it you shared with the world on Twitter?  Twitshift does just that. I started using Twitshift about two weeks ago after I saw this article on Lifehacker.

The way it works is simple too.  Simply login to Twitter with the Twitshift app.  They download your last 3600 tweets.  You create a second Twitter profile for yourself. (I called mine @pastorbuhroed because it’s really the past tense of me.)  Then  Twitshift reposts your tweets from a year ago onto the new profile on the same day they were previously posted. Finally you follow your past-tense profile with your real profile, and your old tweets march out of the mists of time and onto your timeline one year later.  Or you can choose to follow yourself from two years ago as long as that wasn’t more that 3600 tweets ago for you.

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Building a WordPress Website

Late last week I told you about a new series we will be launching at Water’s Edge in about three weeks called “My Brand New Life.” Now here’s the first post showing the work that’s going on behind the scenes to get this thing off the ground. In this post I’ll walk you through what we’ve been doing to get our website launched for this series.

But before I go any farther I should probably point out that this is primarily about designing the architecture for the site. We’re still developing the artwork, and that will come later. What’s more, for those of you well versed in WordPress, this will proabably be pedantic. But I tried to avoid omitting any of the steps involved for any newcomers to a self-hosted wordpress blog.

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