reBlogging
Using MovableType hacks, Eyebeam created reBlogging. Except, of course, that Drupal has always been able to do that: classify feeds with different keywords automatically, and then individually tag them with different keywords if desired. If you're logged into this site, all the external feeds (two on the front page -- Friends and Interesting, plus of course all the other feeds) have little "blog it" links next to them. I can select a set of taxonomy terms, re-title it, and just publish it straight up.
Actually, the import contributed module goes one step further. Imported feeds are actually first-class nodes, essentially indistinguishable from regular postings. And they can also be tagged with taxonomy terms automatically, in order to set up custom re-feeds.
Copyright? Right-of-first syndication?
It's turtles all the way down, I suppose.
(reBlogged from Seb)
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Drupal aggregator failed to work for me
I tried the most recent version of Drupal last week -- specifically to use the aggregation functionality -- and was very disappointed with the results. I got an error on EVERY single feed I tried to import through the aggregator, something about "suspicious content". I noticed dozens of other people that had this problem and requested assistance, but the replies were all "the developers don't have time to mess with this error." Ridiculous. Why promote the functionality when it doesn't work. I even tried disabling the "suspicious content" filters - no go.
4.4 or the CVS version of 4.5?
By most recent I assume you mean 4.4. There have been improvements in 4.5.
Drupal's parser is incredibly strict. But I think you'll find that every feed you tried doesn't validate.
<>I can assure that aggregation does work. This site as well as Urban Vancouver syndicate 100s of feeds, some of which we use Feedburner to convert from Atom to RSS 2.0.
(and yes, I turn off the suspicious content filters myself)
Planet
It might be interesting to aggregate your sources from here:
http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/sources
into a "planet" aggregation using http://www.planetplanet.org/.
Some examples:
http://planet.freedesktop.org/
http://planet.gnome.org/
http://www.planetapache.org/
Cheers,
Phil
I don't get it
In effect, I can already duplicate the functionality through Drupal. I don't, on this site, but I could auto-promote all those feeds to the front page. The planetplanet sites don't have much info...
Unless I am missing something, and there is someone to build these "planets" from a list of sources? Or something? I'm playing heavily with Visual Street right now, and all the aggregation tools built into Drupal.