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

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

Of course today it just graduated from being a It Works For Me tool to being
the latter kind (not sure what they're called). Aside from that, I think
that MetaWeblog API support is one of those things that isn't all screwed
up, and your script probably works pretty well with other tools that support
it. And the dc:date requirement would be easy to erase, no? Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Morbus Iff" <morbus@disobey.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Aggregating your global content output into your
blog


> >> The script is at http://disobey.com/d/code/myrssmerger.pl.
> >> I've done this with RSS feeds, but under the assumption that:
> >>
> >>  * you're using the MT metaWeblog API.
> >>  * all feeds have <dc:date> values.
> >>  * you run the script once a night.
> >>  * it's in Perl and requires modules.
> >
> >The first two are pretty onerous assumptions. This is exactly what we
were
> >trying to avoid, expressing compatibility in terms of products, instead
of
> >formats and protocols. What is it about Movable Type that you depend on?
> >Maybe you should hook this into your aggregator -- that's how we did it
in
> >Radio. The tool I posted a pointer to adds callbacks to the aggregator.
The
> >usual disclaimers apply. Dave
>
> Certainly onerous, yes, because It Works For Me - it was never intended as
> a publicly consumable Release Quality script. That's why I've never
> announced it, nor mentioned it to much of anyone. It was just Relevant to
> the topic at hand. Were I to do something like this for an aggregator to
be
> used by the Masses, said script couldn't even be used as a proof of
concept.
>
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