The Changes in My Web Habits
I’m posting this via Ping.fm, because although it doesn’t do everything that I want it to, it does automate at least some of my “information sharing” process, and that’s reason enough.
A year or two ago, all I wanted was the latest and greatest web apps. I joined them all, and I’m still squatting on usernames all over the web.
These days, I’m skeptical of any application or service that aims to exist solely on the web. Point me to the mobile version or the lightweight desktop app, or you’ll never get top cool points.
Anyway, this post is a mere precursor to a more detailed post on my search for the right place to host my personal domain, JordanBehan.com. You see, I “microblog” and share items more often that I actually blog these days (speaking as Jordan the person, not Jordan the marketer who still pumps out 1000s of words a day). And so, I’ve embarked on a quest to find the perfect place to host my “personal” site, which will be a stream of all my activity on the web (Yes, a noisy stream of Twitters and the like, but at least I’ll appear as active on the web as I truly am).
Thus far, I’ve joined and audited 4 “life stream” platforms that I had hoped would accomplish this for me. Soon I will update you on my findings from Tumblr.com, Soup.io, OnSugar.com and Storytlr.com.
I’m far from finished my research though, so if you have any other suggestions for places that will aggregate my feeds, let me know so I can add to my list of ones to check out. Please give me your suggestions in the comments and I would happy to give them a kick at the can.
Jordan, how about checking out sweetcron.com? I haven’t used it, but I may. I’d be interested in reading what you think about it. It’s self hosted so may not be what you’re looking for.
The Masey Blog v2009 will feature a dedicated “Lifestream” page using David Cramer’s WordPress Plugin.
This way, people can see what I’m up to, and I can keep them on my site at the same time!
Jordan,
Having recently moved to self-hosted, I can safely say that there’s a lot to be said for going that direction. But you don’t need to go self-hosted if you don’t want to. I love your blog anywhere you host it.
I’ve got to update this post, or clarify in my more in-depth follow-up.
If WordPress.com wants to suddenly allow for Javascript widgets to work in their pages and posts, I would call off this search.
I have no lack of hosted sites, both with WordPress and Drupal. (telltenfriends.com, underthecoverage.com, not to mention the day job stuff) and I have a half dozen hosted Wp.com sites as well.
What I want out of my personal domain is just a melting pot of all the places I can be found on the web, an aggregate, of sorts.
I’d be happy to pay for the right service: One that allows a custom domain, feed aggregation as auto-posts, and (my kingdom for…) pages and menu navigation as well.
Sweetcron may be worth a look, but I would prefer hosted; less headache.
I’ll be watching to see what you find out.
Dorothy from grammology
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