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...
- Currently a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway and an associate researcher at DERI in the area of the Social Semantic Web.
- Also co-founder and director of boards.ie Ltd., Ireland's largest message board community (see the boards.ie Wikipedia article).
- Founder of the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities; see the SIOC Wikipedia article).
- Also blogging at SocialMedia.net.
- Creator of WebCamp.
- Advisor to CrowdGather.
- Contactable at skype:johnbreslin or via Skype In / voicemail on +1-415-287-0222.
- This site contains John's personal opinions, unrelated to the views of his employer.
Twitter
- johnbreslin: @iia i'm not a member and don't know what usual channels are3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @ndotnanda Cool! Send me an e-mail with interests and can fwd to the best people...3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @iia Thanks - Maybe next year when I have some extra time it'd be cool to be in SMWG (new baby, job, house & book occupying me this month!)3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @ndotnanda How do you mean? To attend DERI events or collaborate with DERI? Thanks!3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: At Tim Clark's talk about Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine at DERI, NUI Galway3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: What the F**K is Social Media (first time seeing this presentation): http://tinyurl.com/6eua6x3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: Reading about the @iia Social Media working group http://tinyurl.com/5sf2ba3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @iia Looks very good - what about adding your tweets too? :) Or maybe something like LoudTwitter to push them to your blog?3/12/2008
- johnbreslin: Semantic Desktop Paves the Way for the Semantic Web ICT Results (EU): Excerpt from cordis.europa.eu/i.. http://tinyurl.com/64u4l63/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @Joi Congratulations to you and Mizuka!3/12/2008
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.