I love microblogging and the social medias. I'm always looking for little social media experiments as well. Besides this blog, I'm always thinking up other ways to drum up interested readers, inform readers, and give out my opinions. Of course, one of those genres that I love commenting on is movies and the crazyness of Hollywood.
Microblogging services such as Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed and their social media friends are also another fun place to express an opinion. Twitter has one interesting limitation - that is, all posts have to be 140 characters or less. In some ways, this makes it as much of an art form as a short form blogging service. For my personal account, one of the reasons I use Pownce is because I like to convey a unique thought without having to edit for 140 characters. But, for more rehearsed messaging, I figure that the 140-character limit can be a sort of editing challenge.
With this in mind, I created the trailer_review Twitter account. On this account, I post an 140-character or less review of the movie preview, starting with the title of the movie and ending with a link to the preview. But, after posting a couple trailer mini-reviews, I decided that I'd want a website to go along with that I could provide more information at a later time, if I wanted. Plus, not everyone is yet on Twitter, so maybe others would like a separate site where the could grab an RSS feed, leave comments, etc. Thus, thanks to the power of Drupal, it took a couple hours to get a functional, decent-looking website working. This is the store of Trailer-Review.com, my first-ever Drupal weekend project. (Full disclosure: It took me two weekends to do all these steps because I was working on a couple paying freelance projects and doing other things, but these processes could easily be done in one free weekend.) To paraphrase Strong Bad, "Feel free to follow along with my simple step-by-step instructions. I make [Drupal] FUN!"