[GRLUG] GRLUG Blog Aggregator (Planet)?

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Ben Rousch<brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/22 Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Ben Rousch<brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > A couple of months ago the subject of a blog aggregator (aka planet) for
>> > the
>> > GRLUG was discussed. Today I've set up just such a program for the GRPUG
>> > on
>> > my Slicehost server, and it seems to be working. It would be trivial to
>> > also
>> > set it up for the GRLUG.
>>
>> Would that software perchance support filtering based on tags?  I'm
>> still planning on setting up a planet for Rosetta Code, and one of the
>> features that's been insisted on is requiring a tag associated with a
>> blog post such that personal posts don't get mixed in with technical
>> posts, etc.
>
> The planet software is from http://www.planetplanet.org/
>
> You specify which blogs and posts to include by adding a link to the blog's
> RSS/Atom feed. So if the blogging software supports feeds per tag, then the
> aggregator can be set to only grab posts from that tag's feed.
>
> So, if anyone wants a specific subset of their posts added to the GRLUG
> Planet, be sure to give me a link to the precise feed URL.

That's actually the software I was initially looking at using, but it
appeared to make the assumption that it's the only planet on the
server, and I needed to run two.  I forget what gave me that
impression, though.

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