(New Year's video here. This post is different: geeky little test… No need for any normal human to read!)

Anyway: normally I publish via ping.fm. Basically: you hook up facebook, twitter, etc to ping.fm, then you can use a ping.fm client, or just email, to send your item to ping.fm and it will publish to all the things you've hooked up to it. The nice thing is that there are lots of clients, and lots of places you can hook ping.fm up to.

The not so nice thing is that it seems to occasionally, inexplicably, just not publish. The blog post with our year end video, for example, ping.fm decided wasn't worth publishing. Hey, right or wrong, thats MY call!

So, I decided to try out dlvr.it. I'd been meaning to do this for a while. This is really a more specialized (and perhaps more reliable?) cross-poster optimized for blogs. The idea is that you can hook dlvr.it up to your various feeds, and it will poll them, then publish on facebook, linkedin, twitter, etc.

That seemed to work this morning (mostly: the thumbnail was the visitors widget on Facebook for some reason!!!).

However: I figured this polling thing really sucks. So I thought I'd try hooking up Pubsubhubhub on the blog and seeing if that works.

(Yeah, I know: perhaps I could do something more useful like hook up social graph markup stuff. But that will take actual thought…)

Anyway, the only way to tell if my Pubsubhubhub thing works is to publish something. So here I go!