[tags]syndication, livejournal, tumblr, tumblelog, wordpress, rss[/tags]

After today, I’ve decided to stop syndicating my entries to my livejournal account for several reasons:

1. I changed my domain from techslut.net to sophistechate.com, so it’s a good time to change shit anyway.
2. I’m integrating my tumblelog with my regular blog, so the frequency of posts will greatly increase. If people want to subscribe to this new feed, I’d rather them opt-in than annoy a bunch of people who eventually decide to opt-out.
3. Having too much duplicate content screws up google rankings. I used to automatically syndicate from techslut.net to my own livejournal account and another wordpress blog, but since “techslut” has naughty words in it, that site was getting heavily penalized. Other factors may have been involved, but limiting my posts to only one domain helped the matter greatly.
4. I never use the livejournal features any more for my own content, and even the most graceful means of managing comments between the two systems still proved to be kludgy. I’m still subscribed to a whole bunch of other lj users’ feeds, though…so I’m not going away.
5. I’m also getting rid of openid authentication in wordpress, because it is obnoxious and never worked as easily as everyone said it would.

So, here’s the two feeds people may be interested in:

• http://www.sophistechate.com/feed - All of the content on sophistechate.com. This includes regular blog posts plus the content from my tumblelog - twitter updates, quotes from sites I’m reading, lots of images, witty chat logs, and the occasional oddball video. Posts tend to be short, to the point, and easy to digest (which is why I prefer tumblelogs in the first place). Frequency is somewhere between 5-10 posts per day.
• http://www.sophistechate.com/category/blog/rss - Blog posts only, which are much longer and in depth. Frequency averages less than 1 post per week, but does tend to come in spurts.

If any paid or permanent account holders want to create syndicated accounts, please feel free. Just let me know so I can link them here.

So with all that said and done…I’m really really excited about the changes taking place around here lately. The summer season kicked off with a bang with San Diego’s first Barcamp, which totally energized my creativity for my photography work and general project ideas. I was interviewed and published in an honest to god real magazine. And best of all, I’m almost ready to announce a super exciting project that a friend and I have been working on for the past few months. I’m also going to make my first trip to San Francisco next week for WordCamp, and will be going to Defcon a couple of weeks after that (and maybe Blackhat, but that remains to be decided). Conventions make me super motivated and excited to the point of being overwhelmed, but it’s a kind of crack I doubt I could live without. =]

About the author: Lisa Brewster is a project manager and startup advisor in San Diego, CA. Subscribe to this blog by RSS or email, or follow me on Twitter for more updates.