Comments on: Crossposting, more people are coming round

By: Practising what I preach - jon bounds

Practising what I preach - jon bounds — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:16:57 +0000

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By: bounder

bounder — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:58:14 +0000

Good point Mark.

With Delicious I can see a reason, the posts give time based (and theme based) context. They mean more when posted to a blog rather than as separate links. That said if a blog does nothing but republish delicious links then it’s worthless.

I wouldn’t advise anyone to subscribe to my delicious feed really, I use it for a wide variety of purposes, things tagged “work” come here, those tagged “birminghamuk” go to BiNS and others go some other places too. It’s just a mash of my mind, not useful. The way to use delicious feeds is more to subscribe to a tag you’re interested in.

The Twitter thing is a bit odd, I can see the point of a digest (for yourself as much as anything) but it needs to be tucked away. Of course I first set it up “because I could”, I don’t think I would these days if I hadn’t already.

In fact, I’m going to turn it off.

By: Mark Steadman

Mark Steadman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:35:39 +0000

What’s your opinion then of WordPress plugins – like the ones on your own site – that post a digest of your Twitter and del.icio.us activity each day? Thankfully you’re not the kind of guy to tweet that stuff, but isn’t that just the same kind of cross-posting?

Also, more fodder for the argument can be found in a creation by Carsonified: MATT (Multi Account Twitter Tweeter): http://www.themattinator.com/

Personally I keep 2 Twitter accounts, one for me and the other for the podcast so I don’t crosspost for those who don’t want to know when a new episode is uplaoded, so the idea of MATT I think is just a bit disappointing.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:03:37 +0000

Auto-posting to Twitter is also kinda disappointing. Rather than a link to a blog post that might be of interest in the hope that people will come and comment it’s just another bunch of delicious links or, worst of all, a digest of their tweets from that day. Means I’m probably not going to check their linkage again in a hurry.

“Hi, I’m in your Twitter stream telling you that the stuff that was in your Twitter stream from me a few hours ago is now preserved all out of context on my blog.”

Back on topic, I must say Ping.fm has been the most pointless web app I’ve ever gotten enthusiastic about.

By: bounder

bounder — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:54:17 +0000

I’m guessing that if the social circles on different systems differ by that much you should be talking to them in different ways?

By: catnip

catnip — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:10:07 +0000

I agree for the most part. However, there is not much overlap in the Venn diagram of my Facebook and Twitter friends, so I like to post my statuses to both.