I've been posting to livejournal for a few months shy of 8 years now. For the 3-4 years before, I posted chunks of content to my own personal web page. Livejournal was a huge step up in the right direction. Over that time, my LJ has been a collection of opinions, politics, technology, personal posts, etc. I'm going to change that a bit.
I just started a new tech blog, http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/ . Posts made there will be syndicated here automatically with the subject prefix of [A Dash of Technology]. I'm not going anywhere, I'm just pulling my tech-related stuff over there (because it may actually be interesting), which will arrive here almost immediately, and I'll leave any other personal stuff here.
I also have a twitter account that is going to be tech/work related microblogs http://twitter.com/dr_josiah , along with my personal Facebook for smaller stuff that is posted here. For the nerdier among you, I had to draw a diagram to make sure that my posts were syndicating out to the right places without duplication.
Hello new world!
P.S. if someone wants to make a huge amount of money in this social networking space, build a tool that auto-syndicates between all of the major services.
Re: the P.S.
2010-06-26 11:17 pm (UTC)
Seriously, though, I look forward to reading your new blog.
Re: the P.S.
2010-06-26 11:38 pm (UTC)
Also... Google Reader doesn't do authenticated RSS feeds or Openid, which basically kills it as the "one-stop-shop" for reading content (no lj, private twitter is out, no facebook, ...).
The hoops I've jumped through up to now: Blogger -> LJ can be done via LJ's email posting and Blogger's emailing of posts (LJ doesn't have native rss import). LJ to Facebook isn't bad because Facebook *can* import from an RSS feed from your blog (you have to authenticate it via a special post, but it isn't bad). Blogger to Twitter takes a service (twitter doesn't allow emailing in posts), I use twitfeed, and add a #yam tag to allow Yammer to consume from my twitter stream (for work). For tech-related microblogging stuff, I post to twitter, add #fb to get it into Facebook via Selective Tweets, and #yam to get it into my work Yammer.
If there was a single service (or a couple competing services) that consumed and re-posted across your identities in a configurable manner, those hoops wouldn't need to be jumped through. This could be done fairly easily if everyone supported OAuth for reading/writing.
Re: the P.S.
2010-06-27 07:40 pm (UTC)
Re: the P.S.
2010-06-27 08:44 pm (UTC)