Blogs and Facebook Notes
Well, it wasn’t working last night, but it tells me it has worked today.
Facebook, finding new ways to make its walled garden more appealing, rather than breaking down those walls, has allowed people to import syndicated feeds into their notes (that is, import their blogs).
I decided to use the feed on my livejournal blog rather than yamahito.net - the difference being that each post cross-posted to the livejournal blog includes a link back here in the article itself. I might change my mind on that one, though: livejournal only seems to put chronologically recent blog posts on its RSS feed, so there’s none of my past posts. Maybe y’all should be grateful.
Anyway, more when I see how this has worked… 
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Well, it didn’t work, is the answer. The livejournal feeds seem disinclined to show any posts whatsoever. The direct feed here works, but I’m not totally happy about using it: facebook users will make comments there, the significance of which will be missed by those reading any blog post at its source. I may be able to disable comments on my notes, but I can conceive of wanting comments on non-blog notes. Oh well.
Facebook doesn’t seem clever enough to deal with the page breaks I can put in on the blog. I wonder if it will cope with updated posts?
August 9th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I haven’t tried today, but for the last couple of days it’s refused to like my site’s feeds (they’re definitely valid feeds, I’ve handwritten them and checked them with the W3C feed validator), so I ended up using the Blog Friends application instead. This also means people can see my posts on my profile. I configured the settings so it shows 10 of my posts and turned off showing friends’ blogs. You can only read the feed, you can’t add comments (AFAIK), so perhaps you’ll find it a suitable alternative like I did? I still prefer not to have many non-facebook apps, from a security point of view.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I think I might try it. It’s not obvious where the comments should be on the notes.
On the other hand, I know that the notes work well under notifications - I’m not so sure about the other bits.
I still would really like my news feed and mini feed to be syndicated!
August 10th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Ooh, it looks like the notes blog import thingy is now working! I’m trying to decide if I’ll set mine up like that, or if I’ll leave it with my current setup using the Blog Friends app.