blogs.oracle.com an RSS aggregator
Justin just announced that he rolled out the final piece to blogs.oracle.com – an RSS aggregator. The only change I noticed was the addition of the “RECENT POSTS” side bar. Is this the RSS aggregator? There is no RSS feed for the aggregator, however, Justin said that they were looking into adding it.
Nevertheless, I was hoping to find a feed URL in the HTML source of blogs.oracle.com, so I right-clicked on the page and selected “view page source”. Browsing through the HTML code, I did not find a feed URL, instead, I found this link http://blogs.oracle.com/discuss/msgReader$1 which turned out to be some type of page hit counter. According to this page, as of this writing, there have been 25825 hits since 1/30/2006; 12:50:14 PM.
Going up one level to http://blogs.oracle.com/discuss/ there was a discussion group page. On that page there was one topic with the subject “It Worked!”. This reminded me when blogs.oracle.com was first announced. Clicking on the subject opened the message which contained instructions on how to create new posts and change preferences. It looks like blogs.oracle.com is hosted on a UserLand’s Manila website and weblog publishing system.
I wonder why Oracle did not create their own weblog publishing application. That’s what Macromedia (now Adobe) did. They created their own blog aggregator called the Macromedia XML news aggregator (aka MXNA). MXNA is the best aggregator I have seen so far. I just wish that blogs.oracle.com will someday have the same features as MXNA. Given that Oracle is fairly new to this blogging thing, compared to Macromedia, I still have hope. It certainly is a good start.
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Filed in Oracle on 30 Mar 06 | Tags: aggregator, blog
I noticed that yesterday afternoon (BST). Then it only seemed to be aggregating posts from the Oracle employees’ blogs but I see now it’s picking up stories from us civilians too.
Only blogs.oracle.com-based blogs and Oracle ACEs are aggregated.
heh, what if I didn’t know what 3 + 4 was. I noticed you were looking for an aggregator. I wanted a site that I could visit for random feeds about specific topics but I couldn’t find one I liked, so I rolled my own. I’d be happy to let you use it and if you want any specific topics, you’re welcome to let me know. Anyhow, it’s http://uptodate.pcdesigns.net. I’ll try to find some oracle feeds for you.