Been in bed / on the couch for most of the past two days with the flu. Thank Yahweh for broadband and wireless access points.
Heading to Dublin tomorrow morning for the IIA Net Visionary event. Should be a good night, looking forward to meeting lots of people and putting faces to names.
I saw on the Y! Groups irishblogs mailing list today that the IrishBlogs.ie site has been revamped. I checked in this morning to find some WordPress error on the site, so at least now I know how it is being powered 
Of course, using WordPress as an aggregator is cool because now they have some RDF, RSS and Atom feeds.
Actually looks like there’s lots of nice features in FeedWordPress - the category thing is cute
congratulations on your iia award!
it is well deserved. boards.ie is so great it should win awards every year and it is fantastic the amount of effort you and the team have put into it…
get well soon too!
A belated well done on the awards. Well deserved.
It’s cute but not terribly scaleable. We’ve had to do some modification of the way the categories work….and now we’re trying to move away from the Wordpress categorisation alogether. Our search and “related blogs” is done in a separate indexed database and we may use that database now to do the categories and information retrieval. In hindsight drupal may have been a better way to go. It has better multi-user features. I think WPMU is a better multi-blog tool, but drupal now looks more scaleable than feedwordpress as an aggregator…although we haven’t really tested our attempted to modify drupal yet.
AFAIR the aggregation in Drupal is separate from the node creation, so each aggregated post doesn’t have an associated node (or standard Drupal category), but is rather associated with the aggregator categories (less flexibility). But maybe some more work has been done on using Drupal as a “planet” solution.