Pinkkis

It’s getting to be hard to keep track of your online life and what the output is of what you do.

Well, maybe that’s a bit too big of a statement now that I think of it, you could study a persons online footprint and make a thesis or two hundred of it. Although many of those seem to just be concentrating on how bad they are and how to remove bad stuff about you on the web.

Anyway, what I mean is that I haven’t even redone my other pages yet, and already I can’t keep track of what a single post does. Whether this is a good or a bad thing, I don’t know.

1. I make a post on Onevice.com (which is still sort of not there). That sends out the normal blog type of stuff, RSS feeds, pings to technorati and all that type of stuff.
2. Through a plugin, posting an article sends a twitter using my feed, that goes to the sphere of a grand total of X people, not that I’m that important, but you could imagine that I’m someone famous and purrdy like Felicia Day for example and hundreds or thousands of people see that, tell their friends and spread it.
3. Facebook captures my tweet and sets it as my current status, that being seen by my friends and the other few hundred acquaintances that are listed as friends.
4. Facebook also directly imports the full post from said RSS feed and posts it as a note on my profile.
5. As I’m vain and have subscribed to my own blog on Google Reader (just to keep an eye out what it looks like) I share this post with all my contacts on gmail who are able to chat to me.
6. RSS feed goes into a sidebar box on all the other blog type pages I have and as a kicker, if incorrectly configured, they will be counted as a post on that other blog, and get published all over again now through that site.
7. If you make a link to someone elses blog, or rather a post specifically, you send a ping or trackback or something or other to their blog comments and all their users get to read it too. Here, let me prove my point: Mike’s blog - tadaa

Now you have to start to be careful in what order you want to do something. And all the configurations of various systems and plugins not to create an infinite loop and while these systems are usually protected from being spammed, at least cause some problems.

And then there is the talk of having Data portability (and also check out the actual site, Dataportability.org) where you can take your material, created content, documents, your identity and profile and transfer that across multiple platforms like facebook and google and myspace and vimeo and .. the list goes on. Perhaps there are 15 good sites that create an alphabetical list of everyone using the internet. And by clicking that, all that content and infromation you have made and posted, or someone linked you into is available for you.

Perhaps that will be the day when all that is automated, and like in my example it’s already possible today with 3rd party plugins and API’s and a bit of good old fashioned elbow grease. Plus for now you sort of get to control what’s out there, at least for your own part.

As always I’m starting to lose the thread. I have an idea I wanna write about, start looking for the websites I saw and then end up surfing and most post fizzles down. And to top it all, looking at the videos from Data Portability now in the end, it just lists everything I did. I guess there’s nothing more to it then than to just add the video here and get on with it.

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oh and 8. After making sure that all my data nd my heart and soul I put together and made sure you can access it in 10 different ways, none of my friends actually read it, and I have to explain it to them face to face or msn.