Why It WasWeb and Marketing

Retweeting is great in Twitter because it is 140 characters, in the blog sphere it is not so. When I started blogging I thought that it was a great idea to post other peoples’ posts which was relevant to my blog. There was two major things wrong with this:

1. It is stealing – Without gaining permission of the original author the act is stealing the IP of another person.

2. It was wasting people’s time – while in some ways it meant people could come to my single blog it also meant anyone who has alerts are seeing the same story multiple times.

If you do think someone’s blog is great than blog about why it is great or otherwise. Reposting is just adding to the clutter of the web, stealing IP (even if you have permission) and just a waste of time.

So when you consider WP-o-matic or Feed WP or whatever else think about if you are really adding to the value of the internet or just causing clutter.

So tonight I am sitting back thinking about all of my sites. In the past four to six months I have gone from not having a single site and struggling to use Wordpress to having a wide portfolio and releasing my first WordPress Mu site. WordPress IMHO is the best tool for any developer. Making sitewide changes could not be easier, and with exec-PHP making the flexible front-end for you web app could not be easier. This is why I now use WordPress for all my sites.

So just to take a bit of stock my sites are:

• http://www.jobfeedr.com – this little treasure is now using Wordpress as the CMS. The site is wonderful, it gets job feeds from a number of different sites and posts them to other channels. Soon the ability to add ads manually will be made aviliable.
• http://www.rsstotwitter.com – RSS to Twitter is a tool that takes RSS feeds and posts them to Twitter. The difference is the ease of it compared to the other ones which require OpenID. RSS to Twitter just needs to improve it’s page rank. RSS to Twitter also uses WordPress as the CMS.
• http://www.toolnames.com and http://www.CreateMy.com.au – Toolnames was the orginal site which went through several stages, first it was a site to call someone a tool, then it became a toolname generator, this proved to be popular and then came the dot com dot au version of toolnames known as createmy.com.au. Both Toolnames and CreateMy have recently had WordPress added as a CMS.
• http://www.whyitwas.com – My first ever WordPress site. This little ripper has been my one site where I have used WordPress as a blog.

There is some domains I have but there isn’t a site up for them yet.