My blogging problem - rss routing
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Jul. 9th, 2007 | 05:42 pm

The above scematic attempts to illustrate all the different sources of information, and destinations, that make up the information I produce and present online.
The problem I have is a lack of centralisation.
I cannot give someone 1 single web adress where they can view all the information about me that I produce through my online endeavors. There are too many unreleated dead ends, and not enough compatibility.
For my blog, I currently tell people to visit my livejournal account, but I cannot get my Flickr pictures or my del.icio.us links to show up there automaticly. Blog hosting services like Livejournal refuse to build generic rss-import functionality. At the same time, the language that is almost universally accepted for imput, MetaweblogAPI, is not produced as export by the fast majority of web2.0 tools. Its so frustrating!
What I need is a single, unified tool, that I can use both as a single point of contact and context (aka a homepage), aswell as an RSS aggregation and distribution point. The ultimate beginning and end of all my online stuff.

But questions remain, and some links are not yet defined properly.
With the right tool however, I could get most of the above solution to
work.
The problem is of course that the tool needs to support both RSS and
Metaweblog API as both input AND output, making it, effectively, an
RSS/Blogging router.
Like I said, RSS-as-input and Metaweblog-as-output are the big
issue here, hardly any tools i know of support these functions. Examples
that do though: Flickr can post (output) to blogs with Metaweblog, and
Movable Type can accept generic RSS imput for inclusion in the main blog
feed.
Most other tools can accept RSS too, but usually in the form of a special
widget (Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress).
My assumption is that the open source projects (Wordpress, Movable type)
will have many plugins available that can do this. But its a lot of manual
labor, and I have no clue about Linux/PHP, etc. So a hosted solution that
does this out of the box would be the easiest way to go for me.
Do-it-yerself is of course nice, but I lack the knowledge to do it...
Perhaps, if i cannot find the right combination of customisation and cost
in the hosted world, it will motivate me enough to go learn Linux and some
basic web languages.

hmmm...
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jubatajuno
date: Jul. 9th, 2007 04:29 pm (UTC)
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If all ends fail, mass-link from a main site I'd say :'
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