Just another nerd.
Lorelle VanFossen has a nice summary of the newly updated Prologue Theme, P2. Prologue is a WordPress theme that turns your WordPress blog into a Twitter-like tool for organizing groups or whatever. I have a private microblog using Prologue that I update via e-mail for stuff I want to keep track of/update that I don’t necessarily want to share with the entire world. Works like a charm.
I really like the idea behind Twitter, but everytime I go to use Twitter it is down for one reason or another. I’d also like a little more control over my data and since I’m not interested in broadcasting my Twits to the world, there’s the Prologue Theme for WordPress.
As you can see, Prologue turns WordPress into a Twitter clone. I have a separate WordPress install on my server that is password protected where I update my status, etc. WordPress has a post-by-email option, so typically I just send an e-mail from my Blackberry the secret e-mail address I set up, and then those updates get propagated to my Twitter clone.
It works surprisingly well. The biggest pain is the eye rolling from my wife when she notices I’m updating my status again.