Community Aggregators

February 1st, 2004

Dave Johnson discusses community aggregators:

“A Community Aggregator is a portal-like web application that displays weblog posts from a group of closely related but separately hosted weblogs and provides synthetic newsfeeds so that readers may subscribe to the group as a whole.”

This would be a great addition on LISFeeds. Here’s a possibility: Have librarians choose which feeds they want to subscribe to, have the database grab the feeds, have them run on a page, then (most importantly) have an RSS Feed created specifically for that user. I have been chatting with someone who has been working on something similar to this and I hope to mention it in the near future (not necessarily library weblog related). I like the way these community aggregators work. In a way, I guess LISFeeds is one already.

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