Should you share your own blog with Shared Items?
Bryan Person heard about it from Marketing Over Coffee and thinks it’s a good idea, as do his two commenters. Bill Deys wrote about it too.
Scoble refuses to not do it:
“My link blog is for keeping what I think are the most important RSS items of the day, including mine.”
The positive side of doing it is that you’re potentially pushing your blog into more people’s RSS readers. The only negative feedback I’ve read so far consists of one of these two arguments:
- Duplicates - This is reasonable, hopefully Google Reader is now smart enough not to show an item twice. If not, it’s probably something they’re trying to do.
- “I don’t like your blog” - People saying this have a fair point. For now, their only choice is to put up with it or unsubscribe.
I’m personally going to add this to my own Shared Items (david.carrington AT gmail DOT com if that helps).
Glad you’re joining in this sharing tactic, David. You’d be crazy not to.
One thing to keep in mind, though: While I do advocate sharing your own posts, I wouldn’t advise you to *only* share your own posts. Be an equal-opportunity sharer. Add posts from friends and colleagues that also spark your interest, so that your shared feed is much more than just your own blog posts. After all, if that’s all it was, there wouldn’t be much use to following it in the first place, would there? You have your regular blog feed for that.
Keep in mind that my link blog is also used other places like over on http://www.fastcompany.com/scoble so that if I want my items to appear there I’ve got to share them too.
I’d love the ability to *mute* feeds from a users Shared Items. So for instance, if I don’t like a certain feed that Scoble shares items from, I can mute just that feed so that it does not show up in future when he shares posts from there.