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Howzzzt: now with a comment system we don’t entirely understand

June 22, 2009 By: Phillip Category: Howzzzt

As part of our ongoing exploration of technologies we don’t understand and probably shouldn’t be messing with, Howzzzt now employs the services of Disqus to handle comments on the site. This has a couple of advantages obvious even to us luddites, including the fact that you can now use your Facebook or Twitter identity to talk back. Or something like that.

It probably also has a number of drawbacks which, being effectively cavemen playing with computers, we haven’t spotted yet. If you find the comment system broken, please drop us a line via our contact page.

To be fair, our Twitter account has not yet brought about the Apocalypse, but we remain convinced that all this Web 2.0 stuff is, somehow, up to no good. That may be exactly why we can’t resist tinkering with it.

Howzzzt: now with more tweet for your click

May 21, 2009 By: Phillip Category: Howzzzt

Howzzzt isn’t updated on any kind of regular schedule, which makes things tough for our regular readers (of which there is currently approximately one. Hi mom!).

If you see this youve found the right Twitter feed. We tried to squeeze in all three Zs, but that just looked silly.

If you see this you've found the right Twitter feed. We tried to squeeze in all three Zs, but that just looked silly.

But now, thanks to groundbreaking technology the likes of which the world has never seen before, you can get your Howzzzt fix via Twitter. Simply go here for the web feed, or add us to your Twitter feed by searching for the username “Howzzzt”.

Actually, we tell a lie. There is nothing groundbreaking about either the technology or the Twitter feed. It just automagically updates with the title of the latest post and a handily shortened link the second we publish anything new. We also throw in some news relating to the site or South Africa, at present an average of less than two tweets a month and likely to stay there. So we won’t be flooding your Tweetbox, promise.


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