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Just because you can update all your networks at once doesn’t mean you should


Drinking from a fire hose
Drinking from a fire hose

LinkedIn announced that they’re playing nice with Twitter. Status updates can now get posted in both places at the same time. First off, they alreayd could with the right plugin. Second, this is not the right solution.

Like many of you, I used to dump my Twitter updates into Facebook. Until friends were hiding me from their streams and family members were unfollowing me.

A universal staus update is not the right solution. I use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Posterous, this blog and FriendFeed differently. Some stuff is relevant in all those places but most of it isn’t.

We need is better content management systems. We need a CMS that publishes short form, long form and rich content to the right places at the right times. Posterous is the best we have right now but it’s only a shadow of the true functionality we need.

Let’s stop spamming all our networks and focus on using them for their various strengths. It takes more work on the publishers end but that’s your responsability not your networks.

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  1. if you want to pass yourself off as an authority on something, even something as trivial as people's social networking status, you should probably make sure you spelled all the words in your headline correctly. idiot.

    Posted by the internet | 10. Nov, 2009, 11:21 am
  2. LOL. You must be new here. I never make any claims of expertise. Just because I write about something doesn't mean I attest to being an authority on it.

    Also, if you want to criticize someone for having the courage to put their thoughts up for debate, you should have the courage to say it as yourself. Coward.

    Posted by tacanderson | 10. Nov, 2009, 11:34 am
  3. if you want to pass yourself off as an authority on something, even something as trivial as people's social networking status, you should probably make sure you spelled all the words in your headline correctly. idiot.

    Posted by the internet | 10. Nov, 2009, 5:21 pm
  4. LOL. You must be new here. I never make any claims of expertise. Just because I write about something doesn't mean I attest to being an authority on it.

    Also, if you want to criticize someone for having the courage to put their thoughts up for debate, you should have the courage to say it as yourself. Coward.

    Posted by tacanderson | 10. Nov, 2009, 5:34 pm

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