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

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Phil Ringnalda <phil@philringnalda.com> wrote:
> Julian Bond wrote:
> > And then how many of them produce a feed per person?
>
> Why do you need them to do the splitting? Can't you just parse the whole
> feed, looking for dc:creator/dc:contributor/author, and only keep the items
> you want?

Well yes, if those elements exist.

Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
> >But to get back to the original problem. How many CMS
> >providers include dc:date in their current feeds?
> >And then how many of them produce a feed per person?
>
> Are you shopping around for CMS's or only looking to aggregate your current
> stuff (sorry, don't have your original message on this machine)? Movable
> Type comes with <dc:date> as a default, and it can create author-based XML
> feeds.

Well here's a sample of places I post reasonably often, say >2-3 times 
per month.
- Ecademy. I'm webmaster so I can solve this one
- 3-4 Nuke/Slash/Scoop sites, occasional articles, mostly comments
- Comments on half a dozen blogs on varying platforms

So far these are all sites where I also read a full RSS feed

- Posts to threads on 2-3 forums. Usually phpbb

I don't think phpbb has an RSS feed and anyway RSS never seems to be 
very useful on forum posts. Mainly because like mailing lists the 
subject line often doesn't change and posts often consist of single 
sentences.

This is easily handled if you have control over both sites. The problems 
come when the posts are on sites run and owned by other people.

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