All caveats about aggregation are well-taken, Jacob, but there's no reason to even consider making it THAT easy IMO. That wasn't even on my mind when I originally tossed out the suggestion.
Certainly, there should be some thought put into the process that prevents a firehose result. The original issue was someone not having time and/or interest in keeping the blog fresh and current, and I proposed pulling in content from other blogs as *one* possibility. I've seen it done very well in other communities; the use of filter categories and/or keywords, combined with an initial rigorous vetting process, allows the maintainer to reduce their portion of the work considerably. But, sure, 100% automated has its own issues. Anyway thanks for your efforts and I look forward to the results! Randy On May 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM Jacob Sayles <ja...@officenomads.com> wrote: > Aggregation is tricky because the easier you make it to post the more it > becomes an unhelpful firehouse of information. That said, RSS feeds can be > useful tools depending on how they are managed. To answer the "good source > of coworking space RSS feeds" issue, that's one of the features at the > heart of the work we are doing with the coworking wiki. You know the part > with pretty maps that pulls embedded data from each coworking space's > website? That's all part of the plan. So, in short *I'm working in it*! > It's not going to be the full aggregated blog you talked about here, but > nothing would stop anyone from taking the feeds and doing this. In fact, > being easy to extend is part of the design. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Devin <devinbalk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Randy, I love the aggregation idea. I spun up a Wordpress site with a > > feedwordpress aggregation plug-in at coworking.floing.org and threw in > > 20+ space RSS feeds that are located in this spreadsheet: > > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArhSktWsQi1VdGgtcEJfZmV5NWtiaGZQUUIzTVdkd2c > > Looks good to me. > > > > The plug-in can automatically add content items as drafts or published > > articles on a feed by feed basis, so noise can be reduced. > > Additionally, participating spaces could use a keyword to > > automatically bring their content into the system, have it auto- > > published, etc. There are lots of options and I'm definitely > > interested in collaborating on such an endeavour. > > > > Let me know if you're interested - and if you knows a good source of > > coworking space RSS feeds. :) > > > > > > On May 17, 2:21 pm, "Randall G. Arnold" <randall.arn...@texrat.net> > > wrote: > > > What about aggregating content automatically from different blogs, based > > on > > > keywords? I plan to write relevant articles athttp://post404.com > > > <http://post404.com> and don't mind them being syndicated in. > > > > > > Randy > > > > > > On May 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd be happy to repost. Just gotta work it into our process. > > > > > > > -- > > > > /ah > > > > indyhall.org > > > > coworking in philadelphia > > > > > > > On Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jerome Chang wrote: > > > > > > > > btw, couldn't we use Alex's weekly rag as blog content? > > > > > > > > Jerome > > > > > ______________ > > > > > BLANKSPACES > > > > > "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" > > > > > > > >www.blankspaces.com(http://www.blankspaces.com) > > > > > ph: 323.330.9505 | 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los > > > Angeles, CA 90036 > > > > > > > > On May 12, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > > > > > As the moderator and general janitor of this blog I'd like to be > > the > > > > > > first to day out loud that I think this blog has run its course. I'd like > > > to propose that it redirects somewhere else or goes away completely. > > > Thoughts? 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