Re: Auto-aggregation of RSS from Blogroll management system

Julian, many aggregators make it easy to publish your subscription list.
What you're trying to do is the motivation behind that. We came out with a
tool last year that put a user interface on this feature.

http://radio.userland.com/rssExplorerTool

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Auto-aggregation of RSS from Blogroll management
system


> Jeff Barr <[email protected]> wrote:
> >What exactly are you looking for, Julian? Do you want to pass
> >in the URL to some page which might contain links to feeds,
> >and get back the list of feeds on the page? Or all you
> >looking for the list of feeds which have referenced that
> >page in the past?
>
> This is how it works. This week, DW routed weblogs.com pings into an
> aggregator page of Dean campaign RSS[1]. I looked at that and thought
> there must be many more Dean RSS feeds. So I went to the blogforamerica
> page and found a huge Blogroll. Maybe 60% of the sites on the blogroll
> have an RSS feed[2]. Collecting them all involves going to each site in
> turn and scrabbling around through guesswork, auto-discovery, searching
> for an XML gif or the word syndicate and copying the url into a text
> file.
>
> What I wanted out of this is an automated system where I gave it the
> front page URL and it gave me:-
> 1) A composite RSS feed of RSS found through the blogroll
> 2) A list of the RSS feeds found for dropping into some other system.
>
> Now imagine going to a typical A-List blogger with their 50-100 blogroll
> entries. The feed in 1) is going to be close to their own reading in
> their own aggregator. Given the automated blogroll tools it may be
> exactly the list of feeds they read. So 1) and 2) are a view into the
> sources of their thinking.
>
> The point here is that the blogroll, especially with blogroll management
> tools, is a human driven classification tool. The blogroll owner is
> making conscious decisions to include or not include entries. And it's
> comparatively trivial to cut and paste a URL out of a browser and type a
> title to add an entry. I want to create the corresponding composite and
> list of RSS streams automatically because finding the RSS is still a
> pain.
>
> I haven't checked it out fully yet but I suspect bloglines does exactly
> this. If you manage your blogroll and RSS lists through them, the things
> I'm after are just a single click away with a link that can be dropped
> into your site. The reverse is where you start with a blogroll and
> generate the lists.
>
> [1]http://deancommunity.scripting.com/
> [2]There's an amazing number of Dean supporter sites that are built with
> frames, odd URLs, frontpage, word, blog*spot with no rss and so on.
> Soon, there's going to be one or more campaign aggregators and these
> people will be left out. From a technical POV, this is a great
> opportunity for RSS evangelism.
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