February 9, 2004
Liza Sabater
Jonah Peretti has cooked up a really interesting new way to blog at E Y E B E A M's reBlog. With the help of some friends he created a hack that takes entries from feed on feeds and publishes them to a movabletype blog.
The point of the hack is obvious - this is a way of filtering, or better yet, editing RSS feeds. So instead of taking anything and everything that comes through the feed, they've created a system that allows them some editorial control over it.
My only criticism in this experiment is that it is a one-way proposition. They have not enabled comments nor trackbacks. I can understand wanting to do away with comments but with the trackbacks? Blogs are not just publishing tools, they are also social software.
Shouldn't blogs be somewhat open to the society of strangers that might pass through them instead of pass them by?
Posted by liza at February 9, 2004 12:21 AM
Liza: What an interesting idea! One can achieve the same result using a JournURL community and its integrated aggregator, but the thought simply never occurred to me.
re: disabled Trackbacks
I suppose it makes sense if you want to avoid taking the focus away from the source blogs.
Hm... perhaps that could be addressed with a "passthrough ping"? The reblog entry accepts a ping, but rather than (or in addition to) directly incorporating it, the reblog forwards the ping on to the source. Could be really cool, although I suppose there's a real potential for abuse.
it would be a whole lot easier to understand if i actually understood what an RSS is and how all this works. but hey, that's just me.
it would be a whole lot easier to understand if i actually understood what an RSS is and how all this works. but hey, that's just me.
What is RSS? It's a format used to make a subscribable list of recent updates or items from a news or blog feed. The name is a red herring. Roger Benningfield is going to start calling it Subscribe or "the subscribe button" or something like that.
To paraphrase the white knight from Alice Through the Looking Glass:
RSS is RDF Site Summary
RSS is called Rich Site Summary
RSS's name is Really Simple Syndication
RSS's name is called RSS
I'm going to post this over on Pirillo's Lockergnome RSS site....
I just wish I could get the code from someone to accomplish this very thing... I have feed on feeds AND MovableType, and I need to accomplish this same task, which is super cool that someone has done it, the only question is (after visiting their site, too) HOW!!!!??????!!!
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