Martin, I’m sorry you’ve been frustrated by your experience with that plugin. Refeed was designed as an as-is hack that people might find useful, which is why it’s not officially supported or part of the core product. That being said, there are commercial reblogging plugins for MT that you can get direct support for if you’re interested.

But Motion is explicitly *not* just a feed republishing app. The vision is that there is much more than needs to be aggregated from your presence across the web, with specific connections to understand what information is valuable on each service.

Also, it is just as much about being able to form two-way connections to all of these different sites. Simply pulling in the feeds from those other sites ignores the value of the community that you’ve connected to on each of them. I think that part of Motion’s guiding principles is perhaps one of the most exciting parts.

In short, this is the beginning of something more ambitious as a vision for independent social networks. There simply isn’t *any* way to do this with any other tools out there. I think it’s extremely pioneering to have abilities that nobody else has, instead of simply reblogging, which our tools and many others have offered for a long time.

A brain the size of a planet and he still can’t override “smart” quotes.

A little attention and they could have been pioneers instead of trying to (once again) jump on the bandwagon. Here we are with another Movable Type Big Idea with no working demo available only to Pro users.

I’ll take a look when there’s something to look at. In the meantime, I gave up on Refeed and with the idea that MT would connect w/my other social media. In the past year I’ve moved my community site from MT to Ning and my MT-powered personal blog pulls Tumblr in via javascript to provide access to my Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Twitter accounts and I’m off-topic blogging on Tumblr more and more these days. At this point I don’t think I’d look to MT to provide the other functions that Motion promises. But we’ll see.

Jon
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