I'm not sure who is the market for this, people who want to post the same content on multiple blogs?
Why do they do that? I mean, I have one blog and I post on it. Seven blogs with the same stuff would be crazy. Is RSS so obscure that I have to go around to every community I'm a part of to push my content out to them?
Cool that the users like it - that's all that matters. Could be game-changing for those who participate in multiple communities, right?
I think I get it. Still not sure. Of course, I'm still working on why twitter makes any sense at all. "I'm thinking of going to I-hop" "Scratched my nose just now""Look! A butterfly."
"Is RSS so obscure that I have to go around to every community I'm a part of to push my content out to them?"
Yes.
A lot of my friends - and myself - maintain one blog/journal per community that we're part of. I have a LiveJournal for Harry Potter fandom friends, planWorld for Amherst college friends, FaceBook for high school friends, a blog for Haskell/language-design people, etc. The venue's often determined by the community - almost all of fandom is on LiveJournal, for example, and planWorld is still the journal of choice for Amherst College alums from the classes of 00-07. Most of them rely on cross-posters, because they often have their own external blogs (WordPress, Xanga, MySpace, whatever) for other communities that they're part of.
There's a big world outside of the Silicon Valley techsphere - I'd guess that an order of magnitude more people are on MySpace than even know what RSS is.
Well, aside from cross-blog publishing, I see a lot of benefit to announcing a blog post on Twitter and also store the photo over on Flickr. Those seem like no-brainer features that would be appealing to a lot of people.
Artists.
Musicians.
Anyone who is organizing a group of volunteers who check different blogs.
Anyone organizing a party or group outing with a bunch of friends (who won't all have one of those).
Why do they do that? I mean, I have one blog and I post on it. Seven blogs with the same stuff would be crazy. Is RSS so obscure that I have to go around to every community I'm a part of to push my content out to them?
Cool that the users like it - that's all that matters. Could be game-changing for those who participate in multiple communities, right?
I think I get it. Still not sure. Of course, I'm still working on why twitter makes any sense at all. "I'm thinking of going to I-hop" "Scratched my nose just now""Look! A butterfly."
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