ergophobe - 3:19 pm on Apr 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

[disclaimer: I don't get social networking *at* *all* and have neither a Facebook nor a Myspace page and don't have a Twitter account, in part because there's no mobile phone service where I live anyway. Not to mention that I pass most of my time reading things that were written 100 to 500 years ago, so it is perhaps no surprise that I don't get this]

I think I must be missing something. I'm not sure I understand why I would want one blog post to go out to several blogging platforms.

I understand where I might want to have it fed to Twitter announcing "My killer new post now on my blog". I also understand why I might want to be able to post to several blogging platforms, because then I'm not locked into one platform, obviously.

But why would I want to "post to multiple blogging services at one time"? Isn't that just asking for duplicate content hell?

Or for that matter, aside from being a spammer, why would I want multiple blogs with so much overlap that a given post might have several homes?

Please enlighten me? Bit by bit I'm beginning to understand how it feels to be an elderly person who doesn't "get" email.