is there a script that makes a twitter post if you write a blog post or a flicker upload?

Blogging and twittering can be nicely used together, as you have done now. You attract people to your blog, by getting attention on twitter. So, this is not a question of or/or, but the answer is and/and. You cannot use twitter for story telling and it makes no sence to use 140 or so charachters on you blog to tell what you are doing at that specific moment.

Flickr does not fit in that row of three. People use Flickr, because of ease of use, sharing, no costs, no own server capacity and no bandwidth issues. If all of the above would be of no limits in your own blogging engine, I would probably integrate images in my blog.

Are there blogging engines with the same kind of Flickr features integrated?

You my thoughts in a short moment of thinking……

Blogging is expressing opinions, sharing knowledge, communicating. Twittering is instant expressing, sharing communicating. And the added value is that you are subscribed to others peoples expressions and communications. So i spend more time Twittering than blogging. Then again, blogging is still very valuable the time i need more room to tell a bigger story, or i need to implement video, audio of presentations. We don’t have to choose!

Maybe blogging will be just an aggregator in the future, taking pieces from every site you put your content on. This touches some base with the portable social network thing: having control over all your online identity.

I’m actually working on transforming my own blog into more of an aggregator, but I’m not sure when I figure this out. Could be fun though.

Personally I don’t like Twitter.
On one hand it’s fun at times to follow a persons instant thoughts and feelings, but one the other hand … it doesn’t really add anything does it?

>Personally I don’t like Twitter.

Ah, me neither! ^_^ I don’t mind people using it, but it’s too much of a diary kind-of-thing to me. I don’t need/want to know what everybody’s doing and it’s not of anyone’s business what I’m doing! ^_^ If I want to know, I can call/mail people and they can do the same with me ;-) (no offence though, just my 2 cents on twitter)

Anyway, about the flickr/blog-thing, I guess I’m doing the same thing, I’ve been tuning down the amount of blogposts I post. I stopped blogging ‘just links’ on my personal blog already a while ago and decided to post only homemade content. I still don’t regret that.

A while ago you posted (if I remember correctly) something about 60+% of the people reading old content instead of the newest and in my case I guess it’s even more. Even when I don’t post for a month, I get around 3500 visitors a day and they don’t mind if I’ve got new content there, they visit my old(er) projects. Anyway, also because of that I only post bigger stories to my blog but I’m cheating sometimes by using flickr and telling a story there. It’s so tempting! The default feed of my blog also carries the flickr-feed (and del.icio.us although I hardly use that anymore) so people who subscribed to my feed will see it anyway.

Anyway, in my case it feels as a relief that I can suspend posting to my blog and still keep having visitors. I guess everyone with a blog has his moments of “i need to post, but what?”, well, I fell back to ‘at least once a week’ instead of once a day, but with a lot of long term project going on at the moment, I’m even having a hard time reaching that! ^_^

(when you blog a little but with high-quality postings each time, after a while you will go through your archive with a big smile ^_^)

I think Jaiku is showing us the next level of “life-aggregation”… Currently all of those online tools (twitter, flickr, last.fm, etc) hold a piece of your (online) identity. This will move to a central identity where all the bits and pieces come together.

At picnic07 @SanneW, @Naath and I integrated Twitter and Blogging. See http://www.mediaparade.web-log.nl.

Why Twitter is so valuable to me? Twitter made it possible for me to:
1. report ‘live’ from each picnic-session I attended
2. have a dialog ‘live’ during each picnic-session I attended with other twitteraars (for example with @wilbertbaan and @naath) attenting the same session at the same time, or with twitteraars following the same session at the same time at another location using ‘Livestream’ or ‘Twitter’ (for example with @marketingfacts while Marco was in Arnhem)
3. follow ‘live’-reporting twitteraars attending other, parallel, picnic-sessions at another location which took place at the same (thanks @erwblo en @vincente!).
4. even have a dialog ‘live’ with other twitteraars attenting the same session I attended about the discussion having place in a parallel session we dit not attend, but which we but could follow via twittering friends attending that other session (for example @wilbertbaan, @erwblo and I were discussing about the combination TV+Twitter versus Joost while @erwblo was the only one attending the session were the speaker was talking about that subject)
5. twitter made it even possible to ask a question to a speaker while not attending that session. Simply by just asking a twitteraar, attending that session, if he would ask this question. The answer and ‘non’-verbal communication of the speaker while answering the question could I see at the livestream of this session.

Twittering and Blogging are complementary. In Erwin Blom’s words “Twittering is instant expressing, sharing and communicating. The added value is that you are subscribed to others peoples expressions and communications.” and I fully agree with @erwblo “Blogging is very valuable the time you need more room to tell a bigger story, need to implement video, audio of presentations.”

My advise: Integrate the Twitter- and Blog-tool (see mediaparade.web-log.nl) and make use of the value of each tool.

>Why Twitter is so valuable to me?

That’s the whole point, your tweets and the ones of your friends are valuable to *you*. To me they carry hardly any value and so publishing them on a blog is, well, sort of useless to me and a whole bunch of other passers-by. If I see a whole bunch of tweets I might be able to spot the context, but it’s like snooping in someones diary. In certain ways it makes me uncomfortable reading someones tweets, just like when the person next to me in public transport would pull his pants down. In a lot of cases it’s just communication not meant for me and so I’d like it to be a choice to read it. When I read a blog, it’s because of the subject of the blog and I don’t care if that person has a cold at the moment or was late for work today or whatever, that kind of information has to remain a choice (imho). Your twitter-friends have made that choice, the readers of your blog didn’t.

>My advise: Integrate the Twitter- and Blog-tool (see mediaparade.web-log.nl) and make use of the value of each tool.

My advise: don’t. ^_^