Re: [syndication] Aggregating your global content output into your blog

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>> The script is at http://disobey.com/d/code/myrssmerger.pl.
>> I've done this with RSS feeds, but under the assumption that:
>>
>>  * you're using the MT metaWeblog API.
>>  * all feeds have <dc:date> values.
>>  * you run the script once a night.
>>  * it's in Perl and requires modules.
>
>The first two are pretty onerous assumptions. This is exactly what we were
>trying to avoid, expressing compatibility in terms of products, instead of
>formats and protocols. What is it about Movable Type that you depend on?
>Maybe you should hook this into your aggregator -- that's how we did it in
>Radio. The tool I posted a pointer to adds callbacks to the aggregator. The
>usual disclaimers apply. Dave

Certainly onerous, yes, because It Works For Me - it was never intended as
a publicly consumable Release Quality script. That's why I've never
announced it, nor mentioned it to much of anyone. It was just Relevant to
the topic at hand. Were I to do something like this for an aggregator to be
used by the Masses, said script couldn't even be used as a proof of concept.

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