Oooh! That's nice. Mashable was merely a site I'd heard of until very recently, and last few weeks I've been linked to loads on there, which means I probably ought to pay more attention to the place.
For various reasons, I'm not keen on RSS applications, I want things web based. This is partially because I never know what machine I'll be on one day to the next, partially because I regularly use my phone browser to read my friends page and gmail, and partially becauce I want things to be usable by people without much tweaking or effort on their part (because 90% of people won't do stuff).
I did play around with Fx based RSS stuff awhileback, but they really are bandwidth intensive, which given the shared nature of all my 'net connections is also an issue.
For what it's worth, personally I will in future be posting anything public to my own ad-supported website and moving LJ to become much more friends-only and much more ephemeral - possibly even deleting stuff after 60 days.
That's close to what I plan TBH, a small ad box or two and open to all. But I'll also be cross posting my public content (probably comments off but with an image embed counting them, there's a WP plugin). We hope to have a plugin that'll allow friends only content on a WP blog, whcih'll mean everything gets cross posted, and I can give family logins on my site which might mean they're more inclined to read stuff, etc.
But I'll not be deleting anything; your call, but I really hate it when that happens, on any site; I've been known to dig back into very old posts and comment discussions to find stuff, on my journal and elsewhere; I'm probably unusual in this but the thing I like about the web is free and open exchange of information, even if some of it is walled off.
Thx for the link, that might be very useful. More stuff to play with. But...
I'm looking to aggregate LJs and other blogs and journals; I'll also add in my facebook feeds &c I think. I'm not so much looking at following lots of social networks, more replicating and building a friends page; not sure that's the same thing, status updates may be Tweets, and the minifeed may be stuff about my friends, but I'm not sure I want them on my friends page, that's not really for ephemeral stuff, it's for stuff my friends wanted to write about...
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Date: 2007-Aug-12, Sunday 12:02 (UTC)Oooh! That's nice. Mashable was merely a site I'd heard of until very recently, and last few weeks I've been linked to loads on there, which means I probably ought to pay more attention to the place.
For various reasons, I'm not keen on RSS applications, I want things web based. This is partially because I never know what machine I'll be on one day to the next, partially because I regularly use my phone browser to read my friends page and gmail, and partially becauce I want things to be usable by people without much tweaking or effort on their part (because 90% of people won't do stuff).
I did play around with Fx based RSS stuff awhileback, but they really are bandwidth intensive, which given the shared nature of all my 'net connections is also an issue.
That's close to what I plan TBH, a small ad box or two and open to all. But I'll also be cross posting my public content (probably comments off but with an image embed counting them, there's a WP plugin). We hope to have a plugin that'll allow friends only content on a WP blog, whcih'll mean everything gets cross posted, and I can give family logins on my site which might mean they're more inclined to read stuff, etc.
But I'll not be deleting anything; your call, but I really hate it when that happens, on any site; I've been known to dig back into very old posts and comment discussions to find stuff, on my journal and elsewhere; I'm probably unusual in this but the thing I like about the web is free and open exchange of information, even if some of it is walled off.
Thx for the link, that might be very useful. More stuff to play with. But...
I'm looking to aggregate LJs and other blogs and journals; I'll also add in my facebook feeds &c I think. I'm not so much looking at following lots of social networks, more replicating and building a friends page; not sure that's the same thing, status updates may be Tweets, and the minifeed may be stuff about my friends, but I'm not sure I want them on my friends page, that's not really for ephemeral stuff, it's for stuff my friends wanted to write about...