Manage your online identity.

Our friends over at Google Reader have been hard at work (still, always), and along the way have recently opened up their “sharing of labels”, or tags, to the outside world. This is interesting because it allows a new way to have your rss aggregation be sliced and diced. In fact, surprisingly, there’s no jelly.

Then there’s my Me Roll. Feed services like ours owe a lot from others’ pioneering of these uses (e.g. Feedburner’s) and I’ve found using splicing for this kind of avatar-as-feed has been immediately gratifying. I am considering pointing my auto-discovery link to the feed for my “me” label instead of this blog’s feed. There’s a steadily increasing amount of feed-serving out there so features like this help push the barrier to splicing nice and low. I’m not entirely sure what belongs in a “me” feed, however. Flickr photos, sure. My moblog, yup. My normal blog, of course. But what about the comments feed on my Flickr photos? My del.icio.us feed? My upcoming.org feed? Hmm.

Hear that everybody? Yet another snippit of what’s out there about you.

That feed of yours is being propagated, republished, spliced, and rolled - whether or not it’s got any jelly. Claim it!

This entry was posted on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 6:18 am and is filed under claimID.