Comments on: How and Why RSS is Alive and Well http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2009/10/07/how-and-why-rss-is-alive-and-well/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:10:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter Campbell http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2009/10/07/how-and-why-rss-is-alive-and-well/comment-page-1/#comment-7521 Peter Campbell Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:51:01 +0000 http://techcafeteria.com/blog/?p=378#comment-7521 I think that's a pretty valuable point that my gushing over the automation missed: why it is often a good idea not to automate via RSS. For Facebook, I do it two ways: For most of my Idealware posts, I use the Facebook <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/" rel="nofollow">Selective Twitter Status</a> app so that I can announce the post to my status as well as Twitter. For the ones that i think are of particular interest to my Facebook audience (which has a lot more friends and family than my twitter stream, largely nptech), I do a wall post. I would never consider feeding it to my notes, partially because I think that's too obscure to be useful, and mainly because I don't want to publish my blog on Facebook (I do full text RSS, not teasers). i don't trust that Facebook will agree that i own my content if I actually publish it there. Similarly, while I have twitterfeed automating posts to my @techcafeteria and @nptechinfo accounts, I don't automate anything that goes to @peterscampbell. I want to have a personal presence on Twitter, and I like to explain why I'm posting a link, not just post it. I think that’s a pretty valuable point that my gushing over the automation missed: why it is often a good idea not to automate via RSS. For Facebook, I do it two ways: For most of my Idealware posts, I use the Facebook Selective Twitter Status app so that I can announce the post to my status as well as Twitter. For the ones that i think are of particular interest to my Facebook audience (which has a lot more friends and family than my twitter stream, largely nptech), I do a wall post. I would never consider feeding it to my notes, partially because I think that’s too obscure to be useful, and mainly because I don’t want to publish my blog on Facebook (I do full text RSS, not teasers). i don’t trust that Facebook will agree that i own my content if I actually publish it there. Similarly, while I have twitterfeed automating posts to my @techcafeteria and @nptechinfo accounts, I don’t automate anything that goes to @peterscampbell. I want to have a personal presence on Twitter, and I like to explain why I’m posting a link, not just post it.

]]> By: Timo Luege http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2009/10/07/how-and-why-rss-is-alive-and-well/comment-page-1/#comment-7520 Timo Luege Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:04:51 +0000 http://techcafeteria.com/blog/?p=378#comment-7520 I wrote a blog post last week about "Why RSS -> Facebook is bad for you". Since this is loosely related to this post, I thought I'd share the URL: http://sm4good.com/2009/10/06/why-rss-to-facebook-is-bad-for-you/ It'd be great if you found the time to share your opinion on the matter. I'm not a great friend of RSS -> Twitter either. A lot of the headlines of my day job's site (http://www.ifrc.org) don't fit the Twitter format well. And I prefer to rewrite them manually and attach hashtags. I wrote a blog post last week about “Why RSS -> Facebook is bad for you”. Since this is loosely related to this post, I thought I’d share the URL: http://sm4good.com/2009/10/06/why-rss-to-facebook-is-bad-for-you/
It’d be great if you found the time to share your opinion on the matter.

I’m not a great friend of RSS -> Twitter either. A lot of the headlines of my day job’s site (http://www.ifrc.org) don’t fit the Twitter format well. And I prefer to rewrite them manually and attach hashtags.

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