Creeva’s World 2.0

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RSS, I love RSS.   RSS makes cross­post­ing easy.   It also allows me to read all of my news in Google Reader instead of jump­ing to 50 dif­fer­ent sites that I used to visit once a day.  RSS allows users to sub­scribe to your site and read them where they want to, this may be good or bad based on your adver­tis­ing style.  If you are like me and don’t really make a dime on your blog, then it doesn’t really matter.

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I use feed­burner as a choke point for every web ser­vice that has an RSS feed (and I’m a mem­ber).   This allows me a cou­ple things, the first is I can eas­ily remem­ber all the web ser­vices I sign up for.  The sec­ond thing is I have feeds that I can auto­mat­i­cally plu­gin to lifestream­ing ser­vices that don’t sup­port the sites I use natively.

Through RSS I cross post my blog to Tum­blr, Pro­fi­lac­tic, Friend­feed, Suprglu, and any other life ser­vice I come across (just search for Creeva as the user­name).   Now At this point I’ve made feed­burner to do all the heavy lift­ing and band­width inten­sive work for feed read­ers.  I even use my feed (a fil­tered ver­sion) to post noti­fi­ca­tions to Twit­ter when I have a new story pub­lished using the Twit­ter­feed ser­vice.

The other key thing to remem­ber with RSS is when we get to the wid­get space.   Some sites don’t have an option for cross­post­ing, they are com­pletely locked.   You can how­ever (in some cases) place a wid­get in your pro­file on these sites.  More times then not you can man­age to place an RSS wid­get.  An RSS wid­get shows your cur­rent RSS feed items and allows you to place them on these pro­files that oth­er­wise have locked data.

With word­press there is a plu­gin called feed­word­press that aggre­gates feeds and pub­lishes them as items on your blog.   They keep try­ing to make this plu­gin bet­ter, but I can tell you it doesn’t seem ready for prime time yet.  I’ve tried every trick imag­in­able and I always end up receiv­ing dupli­cate entries in my main blog.   Because of that I don’t use feed­word­press any­more, I may try in the future.  This would lead to the ulti­mate life caching solu­tion, by allow­ing my blog to pull in all the data I gen­er­ate every­where else, and then cross­post it to all my friends across the web.  Unfor­tu­nately it’s a pipedream at this moment.

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In the next part of our cross­post­ing god series we are going to cover ser­vices that allow you to pub­lish by e-mail.

Pre­vi­ous Entries in The Cross­post­ing God Series:

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 1 — The Introduction

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 2 — Vox

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 3 — Live Jour­nal and Deriv­a­tive Sites

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 4 — Entry, Dis­tri­b­u­tion, and End Points

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 5 — Myspace