I’m becoming more promiscuous as a content-producer. Several people have joked about how many blogs I have going. Then Bill suggested I should publish an all-in-one feed. I decided to set up a few more while I was at it.
Most are now listed on a new Subscribe page.
First I burned a new topic-specific feed. If you only want posts about London Ontario you can subscribe to this and that’s all you’ll get.
WordPress is already generating feeds for every individual category and tag, but now if you want all of my London-related posts sent to you by email you can set that up here.
Next I merged all of my posts from all of my blogs into one feed.
There’s also an even bigger feed that includes most of my comments (thanks to Backtype) — even comments from Google Reader, surprisingly. Those tend to be sort of buried, but Backtype finds them via FriendFeed.
Then I got a little more adventurous and spliced together a feed full of stuff I’m putting together on digital democracy. It delivers only relevant blog posts plus relevant stuff I bookmark in Delicious and share in GReader. It’s also set up to import any tweets tagged #a2bb.
I tried Yahoo Pipes but the Reader items came through looking like my own posts, unattributed to their actual producers. The Delicious bookmarks weren’t very well identified either. So I ran that stuff through FriendFeed, merging Delicious, GReader, and Twitter into one feed and then merging that with the blog stuff through Pipes.
Through FriendFeed sources are clearly identified by service and original URL (even from tweets with shortened URLs). As an added bonus people can potentially comment on and like stuff by going directly to the FriendFeed “group.”
There was some discussion over the weekend about FriendFeed’s decline. I still see a big future for it (or something very much like it) but not in the way it has mainly been used. I have some thoughts on that and where things are going, but I’ll do that in another post.
