Pulling in Microposts (via FriendFeed)

 Okay so I went ahead and started pulling in my micro-posts. Don’t worry it’s only going to be my short posts that I make on Google Reader and FriendFeed. The posts wont be displayed on the homepage, they’re going to be hidden for a while, until I re-tool my theme. I might even turn off these “asides” off in my rss. What do you think? I don’t want to saturate my feed with stuff you’re probably already getting but I’m not posting a lot anyways here so it might not be so bad. For the other things that I share use my FriendFeed, it’s got all of the google Shared items, delicious tags and other small little pieces of my online presence that I don’t care to make a big deal out of. Of course if you want a comment on any of them go to FF and comment there. – via FriendFeed

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August 06

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  • re: Not sending FF + GR items to Twitter - that's good news, since they usually overflow the 140 char. limit, and you know how I feel about that.

    As for pulling them into your blog (since you asked what we think), you can probably guess some of my opinions based on what I'm doing on my blog.

    I like the idea of pulling those things into your personal blog for several reasons. The first (which you may or may not care about) is that you have a centralized copy of all the data that is owned and controlled by you.

    The second, though, is that commenting and following comment thread conversations is MUCH MUCH easier in WordPress. Of course, GR doesn't support comments at all, so that's a no brainer, and you also know about how utterly sucky I feel the FF comment system is.

    That explains why I do not have any of my other services linked into FF, but to my blog instead, because that's where I want the comments for them to live.

    Really, the only reason I even have a FF account is to allow me to comment on other people's FF stuff, and even that I avoid at all costs since it's so brutally difficult to follow conversations there.
  • Oh, and regarding the duplication in feeds, the best way I could think of to handle it was to use separate feeds from the blog for each different incoming source item, so that someone would get everything from the main feed, or they could just sub to the blog posts feed if they're already getting everything else another way.

    In my case, I did this using categories, since WP already supports separate feeds for those out of the box, but there are several ways you could approach that.
  • Yeah, I'm pulling them all into my asides category. So if anyone doesn't
    want these posts they can grab the general category feed instead but I don't
    think its going to be an issue since FF posts are going to be rare and GR
    shared notes should be noticeable if you want to comment.

    I say FF posts are going to be rare because I figured I should just do those
    short posts through my blog anyways. Either through the bookmarklet or
    setting up email posting. I wish someone created an IM posting
    plugin/service.
  • I stopped sending FF and Google Shared posts to Twitter since I'm pulling them into here for conversation now.
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