I just setup a Planet aggregator site for Ruby on Rails blogs and the wiki. It''s at: http://www.planetrubyonrails.org/ jim
I''ve been thinking about it. And it seems to me that we''d be better off having something which only aggrigated the posts on people''s blogs related to rails. We could probably find a set of a few hundred words where at least one of them is always used when talking about rails/ruby. The problem with many planet sites, i run a couple, is people often blog about different things. I mean anarchoblogs.protest.net has my posts because i post about politics stuff, but folks there aren''t realy in to rails shit, and vice versa the planetrubyonrails isn''t great a place for me talking about the politcs of some protest. What do you say we throw together a rails version of planet with this feature added? I doubt it''d take that much time to do. -rabble On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:08:32 -0700, Jim Ray <jim-rhf1kIDhBaeB8E1WFlbJj6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I just setup a Planet aggregator site for Ruby on Rails blogs and the > wiki. It''s at: > > http://www.planetrubyonrails.org/ > > jim > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
evan wrote:> > What do you say we throw together a rails version of planet with this > feature added? I doubt it''d take that much time to do. >xal has already done this. I just checked out the code. The problem I see with trying to get a rails specific one will mean that bloggers have to have an RSS feed for categories or some such thing or we have to search every post for keywords. The guys at planet gnome have had this same discussion a couple of times, one of the guys on it blogs a lot about climatology and they thought it was unrelated so they changed it once, and then changed it back after people really liked the divergence from just gnome blog stuff. jim> -rabble > > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:08:32 -0700, Jim Ray <jim-rhf1kIDhBaeB8E1WFlbJj6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org> wrote: > >>I just setup a Planet aggregator site for Ruby on Rails blogs and the >>wiki. It''s at: >> >>http://www.planetrubyonrails.org/ >> >>jim >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Rails mailing list >>Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org >>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
evan wrote:> > I''ve been thinking about it. And it seems to me that we''d be better > off having something which only aggrigated the posts on people''s blogs > related to rails. We could probably find a set of a few hundred words > where at least one of them is always used when talking about > rails/ruby. > > The problem with many planet sites, i run a couple, is people often > blog about different things. I mean anarchoblogs.protest.net has my > posts because i post about politics stuff, but folks there aren''t > realy in to rails shit, and vice versa the planetrubyonrails isn''t > great a place for me talking about the politcs of some protest. > > What do you say we throw together a rails version of planet with this > feature added? I doubt it''d take that much time to do.You can already do this using pubsub.com: http://www.pubsub.com/ Several months ago I created a feed for all blog postings that mention both "ruby" and "rails", you can subscribe to it here: http://rss.pubsub.com/17/67/5c1e317c0e8002f1942d5f0bc8.xml Even this simple filter is surprisingly effective. I get a few false hits, but not many (usually someone''s girl friend, Ruby, falls against a railing -- or something like that). Curt
Most Blog software allows category specific feeds don''t they? i.e My Rails feed is at http://www.koziarski.net/archives/category/computing/rails/atom (note, I''ll set up a proper URL for this soon) On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:44:26 -0800, evan <anarchogeek-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''ve been thinking about it. And it seems to me that we''d be better > off having something which only aggrigated the posts on people''s blogs > related to rails. We could probably find a set of a few hundred words > where at least one of them is always used when talking about > rails/ruby. > > The problem with many planet sites, i run a couple, is people often > blog about different things. I mean anarchoblogs.protest.net has my > posts because i post about politics stuff, but folks there aren''t > realy in to rails shit, and vice versa the planetrubyonrails isn''t > great a place for me talking about the politcs of some protest. > > What do you say we throw together a rails version of planet with this > feature added? I doubt it''d take that much time to do. > > -rabble > > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:08:32 -0700, Jim Ray <jim-rhf1kIDhBaeB8E1WFlbJj6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > I just setup a Planet aggregator site for Ruby on Rails blogs and the > > wiki. It''s at: > > > > http://www.planetrubyonrails.org/ > > > > jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Cheers Koz
Something else I''ve seen work is a simple trackback post interface to the blog. If you have a post you want to go to the planetROR aggregate blog, you send a trackback ping to http://domain/pingpost (for example), and the aggregator then grabs the post and posts it (or an excerpt). It keeps the signal-to-noise ratio high. Or low. Whichever the good one is :). I''m pretty sure high is the good one. -- Mando