So in my quest to see how hard it is to aggregate some Irish weblogs, I set up an aggregator at boards.ie. It uses Lilina, based on Magpie RSS (there’s also a nice article linked from the Magpie page on how to set up your own aggregator script using PHP).
- John Breslin (nickname Cloud or Cloudie) is...
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Ahm, I’m getting a 404 on that.
Damien.
Woops, I mean a 403.
I disabled it as I found once I added the 122 boards.ie blogs it got very slow (working from flat files). I’m looking at some alternative server-based aggregators: Planet Planet, MetaPlanet etc.
So to follow up on this, I am now using Planet Planet, and wrote a script to automatically generate a list of boards.ie Blogs for daily aggregation by the Planet Planet script. Try it out at planet.boards.ie.