I see what you mean by aggregating blogs, but can’t you do this already by remixing all your feeds into one feed, and then syndicating that feed to a blog via RSS Digest (RSStoHTML)…it is like making an automated blog that is self populated…..is this the same thing?

I see the public version of a Bloglines account or a Blogdigger Group as a more of a public aggregator.

With a Blogdigger group it is default as a river of news, or you can choose to adjust the view by filtering; just turn on one feed (and see the posts from just that feed)…not sure if you can get it to show posts from just two feeds, I think you can only choose one or all of them.

…and the good thing is you can subscribe to the RSS feed so you don’t have to go to your Blogdigger group, (so this makes it and RSS mixer as well).

I feel that besides viewing a river of news, you should also have the choice of selecting a feed from the left hand pane, like in Bloglines public version, and just view those entries.
That is, on your example Robert, when you click on one of the 4 blogs on the right side bar it goes to the native site, I want to read the content within the public aggregator.

The downside of Blogdigger Groups or Bloglines Public Version is that you can’t customise the presentation.

Here is my post on thoughts on making a public aggregator:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/06/14/public-rss-aggregator-make-your-own/

Here’s my list of RSS blending tools:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/05/20/rss-filter-and-re-mix/#eight

Here’s my list of re-syndicating tools:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/05/20/re-syndication-sidebar-updates-and-more/

Here is an older post for some background on my thoughts:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/05/09/more-than-one-way-to-curate-a-blog/

Cheers…love reading your stuff!

John
(once a Melbournian, recently moved to Perth)

blog.prtopics.com

I put that one up for my students.

You’ll note that the links on each title of the posts sends the reader to the post in the blog of origin. Although, you can have the links stay as permalinks to the blog you create.

Crontabs will automatically grab the feeds however often you define the frequency. That blog, for instance, updates each hour.

Works great for projects where you want to pull several people’s writings into one easy to read/scan location. Maybe a group blog synopsis? There are many other ways to use it, of course.

http://tinyurl.com/b6xpa

It’s pretty cool… need to automate feed collection though somehow.

Or is it an RSS reader…what’s going on?

http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/

Todd, I guess that could be done, because the plugin would go into each new blog and each new blog can then be configured to aggregate any one feed or a multiple number of feeds.

My first observation is that it treats the dates correctly, unlike the wp-rss-aggregate.php one does. And “FeedWordPress” does pull in the posts as they exist (links functional and all) from the parent blog and also places them in (or creates them, if they don’t exist) the correct category folder that exists in the parent blog, too.

I think now I’m going to create a fresh WP 1.5 install and test it on that. “FeedWordPress” is much more powerful and it ‘is’ the WordPress ‘keeper’ app.

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