Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

In part 8 I was going to write about cross­post­ing to blog­ger, but that’s been delayed for the time being.  I’ll get back to that sub­ject as soon as I get a chance.   Let’s move onto mon­i­tor­ing your crossposting.

Some peo­ple may have noticed that on my lifestream there seem to be dupli­cate posts.   This is because I’ve been work­ing on adding all the RSS feeds from all the ser­vices in one track­able lifestream.   The ben­e­fits are that you can see and track how long infor­ma­tion takes to get from one site to the next.   This also allows you to see where your cross­post­ing is fail­ing.   For exam­ple I’m notic­ing that my posts going to pownce are not get­ting through so when I get a chance I’ll look into what is actu­ally caus­ing that.

Lifestream­ing all of our sites into one end­point site that you can con­trol and main­tain allows all the lit­tle main­tance to happy at a sin­gle glance.   We all know that cross­post­ing is usu­ally best effort deliv­ery.  Not every­thing shows up in all the sites, but that hap­pens because your not actively main­tain­ing those sites and some­times things just go wrong.

By hav­ing a sin­gle stream of all of your sites you are not bogged look­ing at RSS items for every site all together.  If I put all my feed items in google reader then it would take me an hour each day to get through all of them.  Hav­ing a quick glance allows the infor­ma­tion to be sin­gled out in a daily quick view.

Cur­rently I’m using the word­press lifestream plu­gin to han­dle my lifestream page.  It gives me the ben­e­fit of hav­ing a daily sum­mary post gen­er­ated auto­mat­i­cally.  This allows me to have a per­ma­nent archive of all of my daily archives that I can go back search and vault away in my own life vault­ing fashion.

Life is good.  Main­tain­ing and mon­i­tor­ing in a sin­gle glance — that’s great.

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

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 6 — RSS Feeds to Crosspost

The Cross­post­ing God Series Part 7 — Where Can You Post By E-Mail?