Autoblogging - Turning full content into partial content.

Written by Degado Times Sunday, 10 April 2011 06:09

As autoblogging takes hold and gains velocity in the web development industries, a natural air of ethics begin to form.

As autoblogging takes hold and gains velocity in the web development industries, a natural air of ethics begin to form.

As developers grow up they begin to see the value in owning a authority blog and retaining readership, which in order to do this efficiently the developer must think about the long term life of his projects and weather or not their actions are complimentary to the air of ethics.

The ethics I'm pointing out specifically are:
1. Should I credit the content I source from?
2. Should I display full content, or have the content become partial content in order?

The answers to those questions will always vary on your situation, but for authority blogs, crediting content is almost absolutely neccecary if you want to run a law-suite free operation.

As for the answer to displaying full or partial content, this too is situational. Permission could be obtained for displaying full content. If only a percentage of a 3rd party's posts are sourced, then you might be able to get away with displaying full content with link backs and remain an ethically correct authority blogger. But for those who want to bear the cross of absolute decency, partial content with a credit back is the coziest blanket and the safest music that will still keep your readers warm and the crowd listening.

That being said...

Almost organically, we are seeing a reverse affect in the community of Autobloggers.

People have gone from:

"How do I make partial content into full content"

to

"So how can I turn this full content into partial content?"

or to

"How can I get better partial content then the partial content provided in the RSS feed?"

That's where a good automation program should step up and provide advanced utility to get the job done. And this article is here to illustrate how it's already done with one of the most advanced quality automation platforms available, the BlogSense Automation Platform.

So how does it work.

Well, in BlogSense we have a shortcode that takes advantage of PHP substr() function. What the substr() function does is allows you to trim, size, cut a string into basically however you want.

An example use would be

substr($content_here, 0, 1000);

which would only output the first 1000 characters.

BlogSense brings this same functionality to the fingertips of the developer with a shortcode that looks like this:

[substr:0:1000]%post_body%[/substring]

Bringing this back around; this is just one way that BlogSense gives little gems to the hands of the developers.

It might not always be the case that BlogSense is the only automation software that allows you to do this. And that's good. All systems need to grow to suit the developers every needs.

There is room for Hardes, MacDonalds, and Chick-fil-A in every city, and I eat at all three occasionally.

But Chick-fil-A a is my favorite,
and I did the initiative of BlogSense's platform.

Over and out.