microcontent foodchain: best practices?

Martin wonders about the foodchain/flow of MicroContent and best practices.

drowning in the plenitude of microcontent-apps, i would be grateful for exchange and discussion of some possible micro-foodchain/workflow-patterns - personally practiced and/or just theoretical. i'm feeling a bit lost here and still haven't really got my thing together. i suspect you have some more mature techniques and concepts ... anyway, the discussion of apps should be enhanced by the discussion of practices across apps, and of user experiences in a microcontent environment context."

I am not sure what the best practices are. It is a good idea to gather experiences though, I notice that people really do different things. So I'll start with my daily approach to MicroContent usage.

• blog items - for reading blogs/feeds I use NetNewsWire. My list of RSS-feeds is pretty stable, I only add a feed when a blog-item points to something interesting. For publishing blog-items in one of my blogs I use MarsEdit. I use my own publishing environment based on Expression Engine to publish my blog-items;
• microblog items - as a microblog is just a special case, I also use NetNewsWire to view the corresponding RSS-finds. However to follow the community in realtime, I use Twitterific and Juhu. For publishing I created an AppleScript and use Quicksilver. Publishing is done on Twitter, Jaiku and my own environment simultaneously;
• bookmarks - for bookmarks I use WebnoteHappy. Creation is done through an AppleScript that takes the data from either my web-browser or newsreader. Publication is done automatically to my personal environment and to del.icio.us;
• audio - naturally I use iTunes to manage my audio. As yet I do not publish any audio, so I have no solution present;
• video - also using iTunes here. Unfortunately iTunes does not support to many video-formats, so I use Miro/Democracy as well (not to happy about that app). No publishing experience;
• images - using iPhoto to manage the stuff taken with my camera. I however have mixed feelings of mixing my screen shots with my camera pics. I started using Skitch and liking it. In order to publish images I used my own server space and FTP'd to it with Transmit. Now I started using Flickr and MySkitch and will probably move to these services;
• recipes - using MacGourmet and publish to my own environment. Need to look into publication process, as I am not happy with the current approach;
• reviews - I use the same approach as that for blog-items. I played with the LibraryThing service and with Delicious Library, but have not yet settled on a good approach.
• address cards I use the standard AddressBook app, and I do not publish;
• locations - I am still discovering this MicroContent type. I am working with Google Earth, Google Maps and now RapidoMap. I also use my own publishing solutions;
• events - I have a very light agenda, so I only use iCal and no publishing solutions;

For mashing and creating a MicroWeb, I mainly rely on Apple's Mediabrowser that is supported in many apps. For images I start to use the Skitch markups. Otherwise I have to define the links myself. This is still a badly covered area.

Categories/tags: MicroContent • client • general
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