STFU && RTFM

One of the big things of today is micro-blogging. If you don’t know what it is, think of Facebook, and then think of the status field in Facebook. Strip most of the other functionality away. That’s microblogging. In other words; microblogging is responding to the question “What are you doing right now?”
 
I’ve got an account at Twitter (my nick there is @razumny), and wanted the last two entries to be displayed in the sidebar of my personal blog. Here’s how I did it:
 
First, you’ll want to find the RSS-feed address for your twitter feed. If you go to your twitter feed page, you’ll see a link at the bottom of the sidebar on the right side, like so:
 

 

1. Log into your Blogspot account, and click the link for Layout for the blog you want to update
2. Click the “Add a gadget” link



3. In the pop-up, select to add a feed, then enter the address, and set the number of updates to display, and what to call the field
4. Place the feed where you want it in your blog
5. Save

From time to time, people comment on my blogposts (you may too by the way, just click the “# COMMENTS” link below to comment on this post), and at times they even comment on very old blogposts, such as this one, dated September 14th, 2007. The problem with this is that unless you actually read the post in question, you’re not likely to know that the comment was made.
 
What I wanted to do, then, was add a gadget to the sidebar, displaying the last five or so comments that were made. As it turns out, this was simpler than I’d expected. Here’s how:
 

1. Log into blogger, and click customization.
2. Go to the Layout tab, and select Page Elements



3. Click “Add a gadget”



4. Choose the option “Feed”



5. Enter the feed address (more about that below).
6. Change options, such as the title, number of comments displayed and whether you want the data and source/author of the comment to be displayed.
7. Save it, and enjoy your new gadget.

 
Note on feed addresses:If your blog address is http://blog.blogspot.com, your feed address for posts is http://blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. For comments it is http://blog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default