{"id":622,"date":"2009-06-15T00:52:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-06-15T00:52:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T05:52:38","slug":"recommendations-for-an-easy-automatic-blogging-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2009\/recommendations-for-an-easy-automatic-blogging-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations for an easy, automatic blogging system?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0066\"<\/a> I’m looking for some help and suggestions, but first a little background on my latest project.<\/p>\n

I’m a bit of a map geek – I’m fascinated by maps and how data can be illustrated with maps. I periodically post things on this blog but I actually run across a lot more cool map apps than I can share in mid- to long-form blog posts here.<\/p>\n

I use a number of different social bookmarking and social news sites – it’s a research interest of mine, so I probably have accounts on far too many of them. When I come across a blog post on a cool old map or some interesting new real estate geodata site I’ll save\/share it in a number of places, including StumbleUpon<\/a>, Delicious<\/a>, Reddit<\/a>, and sometimes others. I also share things via Google Reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is far to diffuse, so I thought I might make a separate mini-blog just for map geekery. But I already spend more than enough time with the blogs and services I’m using now – I’m only able to support another blog if I can automate some part of this giant messy workflow.<\/p>\n

This would be pretty similar to how I manage my microblogging \/ status updates now. I have my Google Reader items posted to FriendFeed<\/a>, which updates Twitter, which updates Facebook via the Facebook Twitter app<\/a>. Convoluted, but now that it’s set up I can post something once and have it seen by friends on different services.<\/p>\n

I’ve played around with a few different services:<\/p>\n

Tumblr<\/a> – Tumblr makes it very easy to import feeds, which is great for what I’m looking for. The only drawbacks are that so far I can’t narrow down some feeds to really target map bookmarks and I don’t see any easy way to add geodata.<\/p>\n

Vox<\/a> – I’ve only played around with it a bit, but I’m not sure what sets Vox apart from other blog hosts. <\/p>\n

WordPress.com – Actually, I thought this would be perfect given the right plugins, but wordpress.com doesn’t have plugins. Setting up and managing yet another WordPress instance doesn’t sound too appealing.<\/p>\n

Blogger<\/a> – Blogger is great, and I should probably use it a bit more considering it’s a Google product. Unfortunately everything I saw in a quick search about posting to Blogger from RSS showed up on somewhat questionable SEO blogs, so I’m wary.<\/p>\n

So I’m still looking. Any recommendations on what would be the easiest tiny-blog system to use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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