Re: [syndication] Aggregating your global content output into your blog

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:25 AM
Subject: [syndication] Aggregating your global content output into your blog


> I routinely post to many different content systems on the web. I'd like
> to aggregate all this into my blog. I suspect that I'm not the only
> person who would like to do this.[1]
>
> So here's the Lazyweb request. To achieve this I think we need two
> things.
>
> 1) CMS systems should routinely provide an RSS feed that contains all
> the posts (Articles, main content, comments, forum entries etc) from a
> single specified person. ie me.
>
> 2) Blog systems (Blogger, MT, Radio, etc) should routinely provide a way
> of reading a specific set of named RSS feeds and translating/formatting
> them into blog entries automatically.
>
> I'd actually like to include some mailing lists into this as well. The
> problem is that email is usually much less formatted than web CMS
> entries. However this brings to mind that EZMLM, Mailman, Listproc and
> others don't (AFAIK) yet have RSS feeds. And the Yahoogroups RSS feeds
> are not really usable having no description/abstract and being empty for
> member view only lists. So here's the Lazyweb RSS evangelism call to get
> RSS output included in all the major mailing list engines and (again) to
> get Yahoogroups RSS feeds improved.
>
> [1]I'm already doing this with everything I post on Ecademy getting
> mirrored to Voidstar. But it's incomplete. We've got at least three
> other people on Ecademy doing the same thing with their blogs. Having
> had this idea I'm going to write an extension in the Ecademy code to
> include all content types in a personal feed.
>
> http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=7671
> http://www.lazyweb.org/archives/004792.html
> http://www.voidstar.com/node.php?id=1375
>
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