EE in the Wild: Cognition
This past Thursday, Happy Cog, the design studio that both Ryan and I work for, launched a new blog, Cognition.
We had a lot of fun building this site. Usually we’re building websites for clients, but when the client is your own colleagues, it’s a nice change. The most unusual thing about this project was the way we did comments. Mark Huot built an add-on to transform traditional EE commenting into a module that can do so much more. It posts your comment to Twitter (with your permission, of course). It also searches for and aggregates tweets based on a custom short URL. Pretty clever, that Mark Huot.
You can see it in action along with an explanation of why we’re trying this out at Jeffrey Zeldman’s inaugural post on Cognition.
Other add-ons we used:
- Textile
- Milan Topalov’s Time Ago
- Logiq Pagination
- Solspace Super Search
- Solspace User
- Low Replace
Posted on Oct 11, 2010 by Brian Warren
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Russ Lipton — 15:38 on 10.11.2010
A truly lovely design. The obvious question: any chance that clever commenting add-on will become available?
Jonathan Schofield — 04:53 on 10.14.2010
I’ll second that on both counts, Russ!
I’m really interested to see how the Twitter thing develops.
Will people truly converse (I hope so) or will there just be a lot of isolated tweets as with the inaugural post?
Are the tweets going to be visible in perpetuity or will they get archived by Twitter? The latter is what tends to happen (I think) with Andy Clarke’s blog at stuffandnonsense.
Jonathan Schofield — 07:28 on 10.14.2010
A follow up…
As I write, I can see that Greg Storey’s inaugural tweet comment is already 7 days old and yet Matt Harris at Twitter tells us <q>At the moment the index is ~5 days of relevant Tweets</q>.
Are Happy Cog storing tweet URLs locally at the point of submission to get round this, or something similar?
Jonathan Schofield — 07:33 on 10.14.2010
Ah, no <q> tag then! Can I use *Textile*?