TomMannino.com

Comic Con is the biggest convention ever ever.  It’s one thing to go there but it’s another thing entirely to see a segment about it on TV.  We heard Jimmy was running around dressed as a strange character but it’s awesome to finally see what he put together, hah.

I have to wonder how much of this was planned out and how much was just random running into people.

So, more haxoring about social-networky stuff.  I’m impressed with how well all of this stuff works together with minimal tweaking.  All of this synergy is pretty exciting to me, it’s a bit of a flickering light at the end of a dark-ish tunnel full of burrows of random internet socialization.  Here’s the crazy insanity that is currently possible/happening.

• My blogs are: TomMannino.com and ScatteredGenius.com (both WordPress) as well as a Livejournal.
• TomMannino.com is my personal/professional blog, and ScatteredGenius.com is my linkpost/random internet blog. For whatever reason, a large percentage of a general circle of friends uses Livejournal in whatever capacity.
• Any posts to either WordPress blog almost-invisibly cross-post to Livejournal automatically, with a tiny “Original Post” link at the bottom of each post.
• As of now, any tweets whatsoever automatically cross-post to my Facebook status via the Twitter Facebook app.
• Previously, my tweetorizing would automatically ‘cross-post’ once a day to my Livejournal using something called LoudTwitter, however it appears that this service is dead for good.  An Internet Friend has supplied me with some code I can set up myself using Ruby on Rails should I bring myself to want to try to get it to work, but probably won’t happen.
• Any scheduled posts to either Wordpress blog automatically cross-post to livejournal, cross-post to twitter, and thusly cross-post to my facebook status.

That’s a lot of cross-posting.  Someone who knows me personally and is well-connected to me online as far as social networking goes will see quite a bit of redundancy.  Example:

I embed a cat video on ScatteredGenius.com, which then also gets embedded on Livejournal.com; a tweet summary and link gets twitterated, which also gets cross-posted to my facebook status. That’s 4 cat videos for the price of one.

So, Due to the fact that I’m concerned that if the noise ratio of stuff is too high, you won’t pay attention to me anymore, I will preface the Tweet-side of things with a word like ‘Blog:’ or ‘Link:’ or ‘Vid:’ or ‘Image:’ something to that tune, to color it a bit, if/when I remember.

To get all this working, the only tweaking that I’ve had to do ‘under the hood’ to get to this point was edit some code in the Livejournal crossposter, simply removing some of the automatic formatting it was doing when it was posting.  By default, it adds a black-rectangle-outline to some pre-determined text to every single one of your posts and it was an eyesore.

As I’ve done with every time I’ve plugged more of my internet into other parts of my internet, I speak this ultimatum: I will not be changing my internetting habits, so if you think my content is spammy/stupid/not something you want to see, unsubscribe in whatever way/shape/form you need to, I will not be offended.  I have good friends who do not read my internets, I won’t take it personally.

I am way more excited about this then I should be.  Jeesh, what’s next… update my ZUGPOINT PICTURE after 6 years?!?