Sean Reiser

I stared making these inside "inside baseball" kind of posts more for myself then for anyone else. As some people find these posts interesting I'll keep posting them. They do seem rather meta to me but the feedback is good as I plan on making this code available when all is said and done. if you don't find this all interesting but are an LJ user please read the last paragraph of this post. There is a question I'd love to hear your opinion on.

There are 3 places where conversations happen around my blog posts seanreiser.com, friendfeed, and livejournal (I write off the conversation on twitter as a lost cause as there's no way to tie a tweet back to a post). We won't get into the reasons why I'm crossposting onto LJ and seanreiser.com in this post. As seanreiser.com is intended to be the hub of my online presence, I'd like to import the comments from into it. Luckily there is an answer.

Friendfeed's new API will allow me to import comments and who likes my posts. I suspect someone will write a Drupal Module for this, if not I'll handle it second. My first project is to enhance Drupal's LiveJournal Crossposter, to backport the comments from LJ into Drupal. I've had a number of friends tell me this was impossible but I have found an LJ sponsored API, which I hope to have up and running sometime this week or next week. Of course the code will be posted in The Lab, when it's ready.

If you're one of my LJ readers I do have a question for you. I don't think the folks on FF won't mind pulling their comments onto seanreiser.com. Social media folks are used to having their content spread across the web. LJ, however is more of an insulated community. I do wonder if folks on LJ would be upset to have their comments imported elsewhere (I will change the crosspost header to indicate that it comments are being imported elsewhere). So, if you are an LJ user, do you think it's a problem?