UPDATED - New Feature: Like It? Fave It.

Hello there friends. We've added a new feature to iamguiltyof.com: Faves, short for favorites is a way for you to vote for the confessions that you like best.

From now on when you see a confession you like, you can fave it by clicking the "fave" link that appears below the "comment" link.

If/when this whole fave thing takes off we'll be adding a listing of the most popular confessions based on your votes to iamguiltyof.com.

That's all for now... start fave-ing your favorite confessions now!

Update: In response to some users' feedback that there's no way to mitigate fave-happy users, we've implemented an "un-fave" link (next to the "fave" link) so that users can vote down confessions that they don't like. The "un-fave" link will only appear when a confession has 1 or more faves.

New Feature: Give Your Twitter Followers Something to Read

Hello there fine-feathered friends. Just wanted to drop a quick line to say that you can now post any confession you want to your Twitter feed.

Here's how:

1. Click the "tweet this" link in the bottom right corner of the confession you'd like to share.
2. In the form that pops up, enter your Twitter username and password* and add a comment if you'd like (this is optional).
3. Click "Send." A message will pop up to let you know if your Twitter update was successful or not.
4. Click "Close" in the upper right corner of the form to return to the page you were viewing.

The result will be a status update that looks something like this. Your status update will also be re-tweeted by @guiltyof, our Twitter application.

*We will never store or share your Twitter info with ANYONE. We promise.

Happy Twittering!
Brian
for iamguiltyof.com

Get Your iamguiltyof.com Merchandise

I'm very, VERY excited to announce today that the iamguiltyof.com store is now live! We have iamguiltyof.com merchandise available for men, women, and pets available from CafePress. We're adding more everyday, so if you don't see something you like now keep checking the store for new items on a regular basis.

Here are some samples of merchandise currently available from iamguiltyof.com:




We'll be announcing a merchandise modeling contest shortly, so be sure to subscribe to this blog's feed or follow @iamguiltyof on Twitter for more information on that.

Please help support and spread the word about iamguiltyof.com by buying our merchandise and displaying it proudly!

Brian
iamguiltyof.com

The Hourly Confessional RSS Feed AND One More Reason to follow @guiltyof on Twitter

As you may have already read here, we offer an RSS feed of confessions on a daily basis. However, we realize that some of you may want more regular updates and may not always be able to make it to iamguiltyof.com to get them. So, we've added The Hourly Confessional, another RSS Feed that is updated with new confessions on an hourly basis.

While we were at it, we decided to add the same feature to our Twitter bot, @guiltyof, so that those of you logged into Twitter who want to keep up with the latest confessions may do so simply by following @guiltyof. There's really no difference between The Hourly Confessional and following @guiltyof with the exception that if you follow @guiltyof you will also have the ability to tweet your confessions to iamguiltyof.com directly from your Twitter account.
You can subscribe to either of our feeds by clicking on this icon () at the bottom of any page or by pointing your browser directly to http://iamguiltyof.com/feeds.html.

New Blog Feature: Guilt of the Day

I've decided to add a new feature to iamguiltyof.com... Guilt of the Day. Yes, I know, just about everyone in the blogosphere has a "________ of the Day" post — I wasn't trying to claim points for originality.

So here's how it works: every day I will post a new Guilt of the Day along with whatever I feel like saying about it. Most of the GOTD (holy crap, an acronym already!) will be collected from the Daily Confessional RSS Feed (hint: keep your confessions rolling in). However, some days I will post something topical from the day's events.

If you'd like to help out with this post feel free to send links to articles, videos, pictures, etc. to info(at)iamguiltyof(dot)com or use the feedback form to send your stuff.

Brian

Subscribe to the Daily Confessional RSS Feed

Today we're introducing a new way for you to stay connected with iamguiltyof.com (and take us with you wherever you go): the Daily Confessional RSS Feed.

You can subscribe to the feed from your favorite browser, feed aggregator, desktop reader, mobile reader, etc. by clicking on the RSS feed icon that appears in the footer of each page (right next to FEEDBACK), or you can navigate directly to the feed by going to http://iamguiltyof.com/digest-rss.xml.

The Daily Confessional is updated once every 24 hours, typically at 5:00 AM EST.

That's all for now folks - to find out more about feature updates, news, etc... keep it tuned here or follow @iamguiltyof on Twitter.

Tweet Your Confessions

Hello there and a happy Monday to you all. We worked hard over the weekend and here's what we have to show for it: you can now tweet your confessions!

How to get set up:

1. If you don't already have a Twitter account, go to http://twitter.com and create one.
2. Follow guiltyof (that's the name of our Twitter bot, not to be confused with iamguiltyof, which is actually a real-live person who runs this site).
3. Wait about 5-10 minutes to receive notification that our Twitter bot is following you.

How to tweet-fess:

1. After you receive notification that our bot is following you, tweet your confessions by sending a direct message to guiltyof containing your confession. You can leave off the "I am guilty of" portion of your confession — we'll add that for you.
2. Within 5 minutes your confession will appear on the recent confessions feed @ iamguiltyof.com and will be posted as a status update on the guiltyof timeline.

If you have any questions or experience any problems please hit us up via our feedback form to let us know about it.

-Brian
for iamguiltyof.com and Driscoll Web Development