I use lots of apps that allow me to put little status updates in them – Facebook, Twitter, IM clients and even Dinqi, my own lifetracking app. I like this idea of letting people know what I'm up to, and starting conversations with them, however I don't want to spend my life updating my status on myriad different applications. What to do?

Enter RSS, Twitterfeed and Ping.fm.

The diagram below shows how I post to a few primary sources and use a few apps to spread the love, as well as how I get notified when someone replies:

A few notes:

• If I want to post random stuff in directly I start at Ping
• I still visit Twitter and Facebook when I have a quiet moment and want to browse what folk are chatting about.
• Work and play aren't absolute – if it's not a secret then the Play route is fine for both.
• By MSN I mean MSN Messenger - there just wasn't room in the diagram.
• This isn't exactly how I have it now – Twitterfeed has only recently started supporting Ping and I haven't bothered to rejig stuff since, but I will.
• This is just how I do it. It probably won't suit you exactly as is, but is hopefully interesting anyway.