BlogIt Will Ruin My Life!
After reading about BlogIt I am convinced that this service will ruin my life. Why you might ask? Because it empowers people to type up a simple post:
My, what a beautiful day it is. La dee da dee da!
...and blast this out to a multitude of different services (their blog, Twitter, Pownce, etc). Which is fine, presuming that friends follow their other friends on a purely one-to-one basis (i.e. I follow Eddie exclusively through Twitter).
But I don’t! I follow Eddie via Twitter, his blog and any other service he exposes on his FriendFeed. The idea of him cross-posting a single post to multiple services and having all of those duplicates end-up in my stream makes me want to claw my eyes out! So, please, let’s take a stand now on cross-posting. It’s a BAD IDEA.
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“Which is fine, presuming that friends follow their other friends on a purely one-to-one basis”
I’m one of those people sticking to just the one source (typically someone’s blog). It means I’m probably missing out on stuff, but, like your last post said, if it’s important enough it’ll probably show up in a blog I check out. For that reason, I don’t really see myself getting around to signing up for this new service, either.
