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

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
> http://radio.userland.com/multiAuthorWeblogTool

OK. I'd forgotten about that tool. Though I do remember now when it 
appeared. I take it that the Radio weblog that multiAuthorWeblogTool 
posts to can be used in the normal way at the same time. So that locally 
posted blog entries are intermingled with the remotely posted entries 
from the other sites.

The other half of the process is to get multi-user CMS systems to 
generate an RSS feed of all the posts by a single person. In Userland 
product terms this would be a Manila user's posts and comments on a 
group Manila website for example. So I should be able to go to a 
editthispage.com site say and request an RSS feed of every comment I 
(and only I) posted.

As I think about this, it's apparent that RSS timed-pull is good enough 
but is also a pretty inefficient way of doing this. It would be more 
elegant for the remote CMS to store a user entry for the callback to 
that user's personal blog and then use a weblog API to do the actual 
cross-posting. But I think single-user limited RSS feeds are rather more 
likely to get built. ;-)

It also occurs to me that this could be a back door driver to get RSS 
aggregator support built into more Blog tools. If you've built an RSS 
parser into the blogging tool to support collection of blog entries from 
elsewhere on the web, it's only a short step to making it general 
purpose and displaying RSS that's meant for reading rather than 
importing.

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