You would think that with the popularity of blogging and social networking, there would be a neat and easy solution to unify the two. There are dozens of social networking sites…but not every one of them will be open to cross-posting and feed sharing. MySpace and Facebook appear to be quite popular but their APIs prove to be proprietary or too hardened to allow open sharing across the web. I suppose for security and privacy’s sake, this is a great thing…but does it have to be so hard to look up the info you want when it’s already shared out anyway? Facebook–one site I’ve been pulling hair over–appears to be the biggest high-profile offender after shutting down their RSS feeds.
I keep wrestling with the idea of shutting down my other profiles on the net and resist the urge to open up new networks. I’m not here to saturate the internet with my inane ramblings…I just want to share and occasionally jot down my thoughts (or rants) when the writer’s bug strikes.
Anyway, welcome to WordPress 2.8…more happy blogging to come!
More research on the now-defunct RSS Facebook feeds…if only they worked!
Another hair-pulling experience is with MySpace…proprietary closed system that it is! I’ve had to recompile Apache to make sure cURL is updated and functional on the server. The only upside to this process is that now the webserver is running PHP 5.2.9.