Last vacation post... I have liberated my content from LinkedIn!
For ages, I've been lamenting LinkedIn's lack of an API to search my content. I've written a lot of useful stuff, but I haven't been able to have my agents look at it or do anything with it outside of LinkedIn's platform. So now I'm microblogging on my website first, and cross-posting to LinkedIn!
If you go to the front page of my website, you'll now see a "Microblog" section on the right that contains all of the relevant LinkedIn posts I've made over the last five or so years.
The microblog has a separate RSS feed, so if you want to watch just my LinkedIn-type content, or watch it in addition to my full articles, you can! And you don't have to worry about missing things that LinkedIn's algorithm just doesn't tell you about.
Every post has a cross-link to its LinkedIn version, so if you want to react or leave comments, you can click through and do so.
I've backfilled it by requesting an export of my data from LinkedIn, and I had Claude help me curate them to omit anything that's specific to events I've attended or other things that aren't really relevant outside of a time-based feed, but to keep the long-term content.
I've also added handling for things like LinkedIn's custom URL links, images, and people's full names, which might be appropriate on LinkedIn but maybe not on my personal website.
If this sounds like something you'd like to do, too, I've got an article draft scaffolded about how I did this so you could do something similar! I'll try to get it published soon-ish.
