andreashappe / narcissism

== 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. if you're thinking about installing this on a production system: STOP!
4. otherwise configure config/twitter.yml
5. setup some periodic thingy (ie. through cron) that triggers twitter updates

So far there is no public access control and there are no captchas. This makes
this software totally unsuitable for public deployment (which might change
soonish).

== Features

* twitter account leecher
* add wiki pages through textile
* erm.. yeah, that's it for now

== TODO
In no particual order, patcher are welcome :) :

* user management/prevent the public from entering stuff
* captchas
* comment support
* tags/categories?
* support blog posts (ie. convert from wordpress)
* actually provide a REST resource that triggers twitter upgrades
* allow two-way communication -- ie. update twitter from narcassism
* full-text search for everything (wiki, blog, tweets)
* move twitter config into configuration file
* export sitefeed
* export RSS feed
* blockify subsequent tweets into one bubble (to minimize space usage)
* convert rest to HAML (and do some serious code restructuring)
* make it less ugly

October 2009,
Andreas Happe