For several blog posts now, I have talked about archiving micro-blog posts. There has been many ways to try to do this, however, I now believe that I have found a good solution. Previously, I have tried to do things such as using Twitter Tool, which will take my weekly tweets from twitter, and post them as a blog post on this blog once a week. However, this doesn’t catch all of my microblog posts. As such, I now have a solution, although it is a bit of a cobble. Introducing Leif Andersen’s Micro Blog Updates . What I do is i use Ping.fm , and I have it synced to my wordpress.com account. Then, whenever I post an item to twitter or Facebook, I do it via ping.fm. Then, a copy of it get’s saved to a blog I have reserved for my micro-blog updates. From there, is is easy to archive it, and keep a copy for future generations. Also, it doesn’t get in the way of my actual blog posts.
Yes, it is a bit of a work around, but it still works for the moment. I like how I also get an RSS feed from this, meaning that I can plug that feed into a widgit on my main blog. However, things about this that I don’t like include the fact that I have to go through ping.fm. I would like it to be able to sync with anything that I post, even if it’s on Facebook or twitter. At least when I put something on ping.fm it goes to Facebook and twitter. Also, the problem of shortlinks still remains. Whenever I share an article, rather than storing the actual link, it shores a short link from the ping.fm servers. Finally, I still am forced to go through WordPress.com. While I could choose to go through blogger instead, there is no standard wordpress plugin (for non wordpress.com users). Anyway, we’ll see how this works. And if any of you readers have a better idea, I would like to hear about it.
