My @Quora answer to Is there a quick way to republish Twitter updates onto a blog? http:/
There are a small variety of answers here some of which (including Ashton Kutcher's suggestion of the formerly awesome ping.fm) are already defunct in less than a year or two, which indicates the fickle and rapidly changing nature of the internet.
I'll start by not accepting the premise of the question, but modifying the conceptualization to something more interesting and robust. Since there are hundreds upon hundreds of defunct web services many of which have died with little to no advance warning and which more often than not were information silos that didn't allow their users to export their data (see: site-deaths - IndieWebCamp [http:/
"Is there a quick way to cross-publish or syndicate my content to Twitter?"
The hidden sentiment of the original question: "how can I easily keep my own data in the eventuality that Twitter disappears?" is really the root of the problem and is one which the IndieWeb movement has been diligently working on for several years. I'll let them speak for themselves:
Your content is yours
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.
You are better connected
Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your sites o they’re all in one place.
You are in control
You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as Page on example.com. These links arepermanent and will always work.
-- Source: IndieWebCamp [http:/
The general philosophy is that it is easy enough to own your own site, own your own data, and then syndicate it out to any of the variety of content silos that exist (while sucking additionally created follow-on data, such as comments, likes, etc. back into your own site), so that you can simultaneously take advantage of the network effects of these silos while still owning everything and not chancing that it will disappear without warning. I'd highly recommend surfing around the IndieWebCamp site for a bit, but I imagine that most will find it actually describes the way many wished the internet worked.
Now that we've got the background philosophy of the question sorted out, let's take a look at the semantics of the solution. The question is essentially asking about the IndieWeb concept of Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (aka POSSE [http:/
The comments on this post will track the SEO implications of @VH1's @DatingNaked http:/
This reminds me too of the visualization tool at http:/
In fact, as I think about it, since their project is aimed primarily at helping to provide highly integrated curriculum (physics, chemistry, anthropology, paleontology, biology, history, etc.) to high school teachers for high school students, you might consider some type of collaboration with their group to potentially assist in possibly providing curriculum out of the Azimuth Project. Having a more integrated and complex viewpoint on the world we live in can certainly encourage the next generation of students to help save what we've got.
I can provide more resources if you're interested, though it's quite a bit more than the comments section here could hold. A small start can be found in a brief review I wrote a few years back: http:/
My reply to: Daniel Tung's answer to What do people think of Cesar Hidalgo's thesis in Why Information Grows? - Quora https:/
I've read his book and think his views are more nuanced than you posit. Shortly, I hope to write a longer review, so for now I'll add some more nuance and some facts to the comments above.
I think Hidalgo would disagree with the criticism of his view in part A. I suggest you read his first few chapters to better tease apart how Hidalgo (and even Shannon himself) viewed information. In Shannon's original paper (in the second paragraph!) he totally divorces the semantic meaning of the message and only considers the mathematical portion of the information. Hidalgo follows along with this premise (page xvi in his introduction), though he doesn't go as deeply into the semantics of the example you've given, primarily as the target audience for the book is the mass market rather than specialists. From a thermodynamics perspective, the system under consideration was never just the Bugatti (which is the view Daniel is taking), but the system is the larger universe which includes the Bugatti, and all of the potential people in the societies which might encounter that Bugatti, including the New Guinean Highlanders who might view it as relatively worthless.
As for the criticism in part B, Hidalgo on page 105 queries us: "Are iPhones Californian, Chinese, or Korean? With the dismemberment of production, the nationality of products no longer makes much sense." Here Hidalgo takes an external view of everything, which is much more sophisticated than the simpler viewpoints he takes earlier in the text in which he looks at individual economies with respect to each other. Here Daniel's criticism simply suffers from not having all the facts or examples Hidalgo provides.
I like what you've done with the final product and have always thought about doing something similar myself, particularly after I saw what Martin Fenner (https:/
Another thing I've been playing around with lately has been some tools/toys at http:/
A large part of their philosophy is to own one's own data and then syndicate it out to other social media/external site, but some of their infrastructure allows one to easily make posts on one's own page which then act as replies on another's site. This is particularly interesting from the viewpoint of teaching wherein students and professors can interact with each other, but still have/own all of their individual work. (Incidentally, it also makes for using one's own site as a commonplace book of sorts, which I often find valuable.)
As an exmple, you'll notice on the post on my blog http:/
I've been doing something similar myself, particularly given the number of social media outlets to which one can publish. To solve part of the problem, I've been attempting to utilize the tenets of the Indie Web (http:/