The Rebirth of Corcoran Brothers, or How to Drive Jake Crazy*
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Web 2.0
Social Networking
It is so much easier hitting up all your buds on facebook, or sending out short tweets on twitter than to come up with a good post. Blogging isn’t what it used to be. I used to have more time and a lot more enthusiasm for posting. I would rather not post than post shit. Even the technical aspects of running the site lost its luster. Facebook became decent enough for me to forgo posting here. (Although like most geeks who have run their own website, it is very difficult to get used to.) Twitter is easy and sending a somewhat meaningful message inside 140 characters is a fun mental game, like writing horrible haikus.
We used to have a lot of fun on here. A lot of great back and forth. Because I stopped writing, all that went away, or more properly, moved elsewhere. So, rather than pretend I still ran a website, I moved the front page to a bunch of links to the brothers’ different web presence, facebook, etc…
This saddened Jenn, who thought if anything just aggregate all those other presences here. GENIUS!
I hate having to update across different sites, a real downside to the “social” web is the lack of cross posting. Here is a central portal. I have set up so all my twitter tweets, flickr pics and google reader items that I share show up here. Da Kine’s flickr is imported as well. Anytime I update one of those, within 20 minutes it becomes an entry here. As I am always tweeting, this website should have content most days. The fun part is now it gets shared with those outside of twitter, etc…
Sadly, Facebook does not have rss support to use in this way. I could fake some decent feeds, but you need to be logged in to get them to work, so from my home system they would work, from the cron job, not so much. So, no facebook updates here.
So far it is just me and da kine. If anyone else wants to participate, I will happilly add their sources to the page. Any site you use that has an rss feed dedicated for you I can add in here. Not just the brothers, any of the old school regulars. (I was going to add Jenn’s flickr, but it is full of bugs 
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* How would this drive Jake crazy?
That’s the comment the system held on to even though the post was deleted. Odd. Yes, if you follow me on twitter, et al, you we see some dupes. A lot of dupes. Sorry…
