Entries by Sam

So I ran into an interesting dilemma, and my usually analytical brain is having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Imagine the scenario: I have a blog, a twitter, and a facebook. I'm trying to manage updates to all of them, and I think I've at least determined the rules around how I want to manage those updates:

1. Facebook updates shouldn't automatically update anything else.

2. Blog updates should update twitter and facebook.

3. twitter updates should update facebook.

Now on the face of it, it sounds simple: blog -> twitter -> facebook. However, add in another rule here:

4. Blog updates should go to facebook as a complete entry, not as a bit.ly shortcut.

And now, the crux of the problem. In order to achieve all of the above, I ran into a snag - Blog updates are appearing twice on facebook - the tweet with the bit.ly link, and the facebook pull from the Blog's RSS feed.

5. No duplicate entries on the same system.

This is the one I can't figure out - so I've temporarily disabled the twitter -> facebook link. I figure that currently I don't have that much to tweet, so it's not exactly an issue; on the offchance that I figure out what to use twitter for, it might become an issue again.

So... what do y'all do? Any tricks that I've overlooked?

The external hard drive broke. Someone let out the magic smoke, and it stopped turning. So for a while, not only were we not able to put new pictures up on here, but it looked like all the pictures from the last 3 years were gone, minus a few backups from some points in time.

However, I put my data recovery fu into action, and brought the innards back to life, at least for long enough to pull everything off. But it's on another drive, and not entirely organized. Watch this space, updates resuming again soon

-S

Labels: ohcrap

...it's just been crazy for the last few months.

Look for some updates next week. Pictures of a new star of this blog

-S