Jim Groom

Lauren,
I think you raise some really good points. In order for Known to get traction, it has to handle posting of your work to the various social spaces even more seamlessly. This goes beyond Twitter, Flickr, SoundCloud, etc. to also includes linking up with your Tumblr, WordPress blog, Blogger, etc. I think your questions are right on, and frankly they are much appreciated because I want to get a sense of what it would take to make this a seamless experience. We are the guinea pigs on this one, and our feedback will be taken seriously. So provide it candidly, and as often as you're wont to do.

On a technical note, what I love about Known is it re-syndicates work effortlessly, the link to your social media is dead simple, and it might help us re-think how we publish our work out to the various social media sites we occupy. What the Indieweb refers to as <a href="http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE">POSSE</a>. What's more, just by me writing on my site and including a link to your post, I am able to syndicate my comment to your site. And, if you hook our sites up through brid.gy , you can pull in social media mentions of your work as well through Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The challenges for Known are less theoretical, and much more practical. Do I have to do things twice? If I do, I will eventually revert back to the simpler way. I'll once again just post in my blog, or on twitter, or on flickr. I won't spend the time posting to Known, and then reposting on Flickr, or my blog, or somewhere else. That's the trick, people will always revert to easy. The other thing that would help is a way to pull an iframe or some other glimpse of those communities (say Twitter for example) into known so you can feel you are embedded in those sites still, while posting through your own portal to them.

Known is the closest, most elegant solution I've seen to this yet, and it is still very young and malleable.We can help define where it goes to get at a broader sense of what a work flow for managing and controlling our own data but sharing it widely might look like. SO, thanks for the honest feedback, you rule!