{"id":272,"date":"2003-03-14T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2003-03-14T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T15:07:33","slug":"blog-network-metablog-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Blog Network Metablog: How it Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog-network.com\">Blog Tribe Metablog<\/a> which aggregates posts about blogging.<br \/>\nWe built the metablog using Version 2 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbloggers.org\">Austinbloggers<\/a> infrastructure. Bloggers add a trackback ping to their posts, and those posts are aggregated into a central blog on the topic.<br \/>\nVersion 1 used <a href=\"http:\/\/topicexchange.com\">TopicExchange<\/a> from Phil Pearson. TopicExchange uses trackback to aggregates posts to a URL at the TopicExchange site.  This is very handy, if you simply want a list of posts on a topic.  If you want to create a site that has richer formatting, you can aggregate the posts into your favorite blog tool using RSS. Unfortunately, that introduces a time delay.<br \/>\nSo we developed Version 2, which uses a Python script developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicom.com\/chrome\/\">Chip Rosenthal<\/a>, to instantly aggregate an abstract of the posts that issue the trackback pings, and to post them to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\">MovableType<\/a> blog.  Version 2 also has a right-column sidebar of announcements. The template contains a second MTEntries section running down the sidebar which displays posts having the category &#8220;announcements.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe AustinBloggers site has moved on to Metablog Version 3, which uses Chip&#8217;s custom-written CMS and server-side includes to display the page.<br \/>\nBut the Blog-network site uses Version 2, so it can be easily maintained by people who know Movable Type.<br \/>\nIf you have any more questions about how this works, feel free to ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Blog Tribe Metablog which aggregates posts about blogging. We built the metablog using Version 2 of the Austinbloggers infrastructure. Bloggers add a trackback ping to their posts, and those posts are aggregated into a central blog on the topic. Version 1 used TopicExchange from Phil Pearson. TopicExchange uses trackback to aggregates posts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Network Metablog: How it Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}