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Housekeeping

It’s been pretty quiet around here on the MethoBlog. Not many folks have been posting stuff to the front page, and we generally just mosey along gathering your posts and compiling them for your use. Behind the scenes however I have started working today on some changes that I hope will improve the experience here. It involves moving from the “built-in” aggregator in our content management software to a more developed system. While I was able to import the basic information about your feeds, I still have to tweak and test each one individually, and since there are over 200 feeds gathered here, this is going to take a little time.

 

There will be some times during the next few weeks when our testing may cause the RSS feed to disappear. We will try to minimize this as much as possible, so don’t freak out if things seem strange for a while.

that jay guy

gee, i tell ya, that jay guy is always up to something. anyone want to take bets on whether he & i will be having some tech conversation this week involving the methoblog? www.gavoweb.com

Feed API

The MethoBlog is built in drupal, and we are moving from the standard aggregator that is included in the software to feedapi. What this will allow in the future is greater customization on how we present the aggregated information on the site. The notion of external compilation is interesting (frankly I hadn't thought about it) but I really haven't had bandwidth issues so far so I will probably stick with the internal plugins for drupal.

Prayer for Methoblog.

Dear and Heavenly Father, We thank you for Jay's technical skills and his willing and generous heart to move forward in his ministry to bring the Methoblog together. We ask that you make him, and therefore us, better disciples through these tools that you have provided. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen

Yeah, that was me...n/t

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what system?

I'm a techie, so lemme kick the tires. What system of RSS aggregation and syndication are you going to? External compilation via netvibes or yahoo pipes, then the bandwidth is through their third-party service? Or am I waaaaay off?
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