Comments on: cityfilter

Question: cityfilter

striker — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:10:12 -0800

I want to do a city related blog aggregation. How do I do this?

My city is smallish. I have a list of bloggers in my city. We want to be able to have a website that aggregates the posts on these blogs to a central place easily (most of them are not tech savvy). I have a server with php and mysql. Where do I start? I would also like to integrate upcoming.org events in the future, so something that could be built on would be helpful.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:21:42 -0800

Check out Arborblogs, an aggregation site of Ann Arbor weblogs. The guys who run it are geeks, and talk about the process on the front page.
Also, the guy who runs it is revgeorge on MeFi.

By: briank

briank — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:35:19 -0800

Also Universal Hub for Boston. (He's using Drupal to run the site and the aggregation)

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:55:37 -0800

Planet Cincinnati uses the Planet Planet aggregator.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:57:33 -0800

Ooops...its actually just called the Planet Agregator. That's what you get when you refer to a product by its website and not its name.

By: dflemingdotorg

dflemingdotorg — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:07:37 -0800

You could also check out Cityfilter in Charlottetown, PE, which I believe is also a drupal configuration.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:11:43 -0800

DC has a really cool one, although the high-tech version doesn't seem to be working for me right now in firefox.

By: pzarquon

pzarquon — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:15:19 -0800

I've been trying to do this with CaRP, which I know costs money and free scripts do the same thing better, but it's what I cut my teeth on. I'm not a fan of Drupal, but the Planet Aggregator looks interesting. I'm guessing it, like CaRP, does caching, so that each hit on the page doesn't hit each subscribed feed?

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:23:04 -0800

Also see the php-based zfeeder. I use it to display my Netflix RSS queue and shipping feeds on a page so that my friends can see what's coming. It took me about 30 minutes to put up.

By: striker

striker — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:29:04 -0800

Thanks for your replies, I'm zfeeder looks nice (does it cache?). I also am looking at lilinia. I would like to be able to pull/highlight certain posts on the main page. Would appreciate any other advice about starting one of these (revgeorge?) from anyone who comes across this AskMe as it scrolls off the main page.

By: waldo

waldo — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:02:52 -0800

I used Planet to set up a Charlottesville, VA blog aggregator last night. It took about 10 minutes, plus a little time to write a passable style sheet.