{"id":386,"date":"2003-07-03T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2003-07-03T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T13:50:55","slug":"topic-blogs-with-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Topic blogs with RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artima Technology has set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/buzz\/index.jsp\">nifty experiment<\/a> using RSS to create aggregate blogs for techology topics like Perl, Python, C#, agile development, patterns, and more.<br \/>\nBloggers submit their blog and choose which of 26 topics their blog resembles most closely. The problem is, most bloggers &#8212; even bloggers who write a lot about a single topic &#8212; tend to write about more than one thing.<br \/>\nSo, the Java blog page contains an entry each on geocoding for weblogs, HTML encoding, Movable Type, XML proliferation,  and Echo, along with nine posts that actually mention Java!<br \/>\nI prefer the Trackback method of making topic blogs. The author categorizes the <i>post<\/i> s\/he wants to contribute instead of having to stereotype the entire blog with a single topic.<br \/>\nThis makes the blog much more relevant and focused. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbloggers.org\">Austin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seablogs.hellbent.org\/\">Seattle<\/a> community blogs use this method, and I&#8217;ve seen good conference blogs use this method, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artima Technology has set up a nifty experiment using RSS to create aggregate blogs for techology topics like Perl, Python, C#, agile development, patterns, and more. Bloggers submit their blog and choose which of 26 topics their blog resembles most closely. The problem is, most bloggers &#8212; even bloggers who write a lot about a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Topic blogs with RSS&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}