Let's face it, blogging on MySpace sucks. With so many alternatives its surprising that MySpace decided to reinvent the wheel. MySpace doesn’t allow you to incorporate a third party blogging service into your profile like tribe.net does so here's an alternative. It uses a flash movie to list your latest posts on your MySpace page.

First you need to find the RSS feed for your blog. Next go into "Edit profile" from your MySpace homepage. Paste the code segment below into your "About Me" box, change the word TEST in the flashvars parameter of the code segment you pasted to the URL of your RSS feed (e.g. http://www.qicboy.com/rss.xml) hit "Save All Changes".

<embed 
flashvars="file=http://downloads.thespringbox.com/widgets/RSS Reader.sbw&param=TEST"
allowScriptAccess="never" 
allowNetworking="internal" 
enableJSURL="false" 
enableHREF="false" 
saveEmbedTags="true" 
src="http://downloads.thespringbox.com/web/wrapper.swf" 
allowScriptAccess="never" 
allowNetworking="internal" 
enableJSURL="false" 
enableHREF="false" 
saveEmbedTags="true" 
quality="high" wmode="transparent" 
width="435" 
height="300" 
align="middle" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>

The widget above is just one possible widget you can use for this. There are others available. Pick the one you like best, just make sure it can be inserted using an embed tag.

Some time back I used a hack which included an iframe on the blog page to point back to my blog site. This was a hack and MySpace has since fixed the exploit. I went in and made a change to my blog preferences and it wiped out the hack. So if you've already taken advantage of the sploit and want to keep it, don't change your settings. Personally I prefer to hide my blog on my MySpace page entirely. You can learn how to hide both your "blog" and your "extended network" banner with some simple codes.

You can customize the code by visiting the SpringBox site.

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Posted by QICBoy on January 9, 2007 4:20:00 PM PST #