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

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

To your first question, yes they are intermingled, if you want them to be.
The multi-author weblog is a category, so if you want to keep it completely
segregated, you can, or if you want to use the local Radio to contribute you
can do that too.

BTW, this tool was created in response to a feature request from Cory
Doctorow for people contributing to Boing Boing.

To the second question, actually you could easily do that with a Manila
plug-in (it might already exist), but another way of doing it is to create a
Manila site for the author who's contirbuting to the M-A-W. Manila sites are
easy to create once Manila is set up.

Your request is interesting because of your third point. Once the other guys
implement this, if they do, Blogger, Movable Type, et al, they will all have
mini-aggregators.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Aggregating your global content output into your
blog


> 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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