Introduction

So you had a blog and stopped to update it regulary. Then twitter started to attract you and the blog finally died, still you cannot bring yourself to kill the thing off as you are thinking "maybe I'll write some pages that somebody might actually find useful and I'd need some sort of wiki/blog to publish it".

May I present you..

Narcissism.

It is a simple Rails website that captures a twitter stream and presents it in a blog-like fashion. In addition simple wiki sites (through Textile) can be entered to the system and are integrated into the user's timeline.

Getting Started

1. get the software from github
2. install rails and all needed gems
3. otherwise configure config/twitter.yml with you twitter username and password
4. Configure an admin user through config/admin.yml. Narcissim doesn't support multiple users (yet and I'm not sure that I'll write that functionality) so there was no need for creating database objects for this.
5. setup some periodic thingy (ie. cron) that triggers twitter updates. This can be done by automatically creating GET-requests on /fetcher.

Features

• twitter account leecher
• add wiki pages through textile
• pseudo full-text search capabilities
• groups temporal related tweets to made reading easier
• provides RSS feed of formatted recent posts and tweets
• support for static pages (eg. 'about me')
• erm.. yeah, that's it for now

TODO

In no particual order, patches are welcome :) :

• comment support
• captchas
• tags/categories?
• support blog posts (ie. convert from wordpress)
• allow two-way communication -- ie. update twitter from narcassism
• export google sitemap XML
• make it less ugly

October 2009, Andreas Happe http://snikt.net