How OraNA.info Aggregates Blogs.Oracle.com
On July 1st, blogs.oracle.com was migrated to a new platform, Six Apart’s Movable Type Enterprise on top of Oracle Content DB. The list of Oracle related blogs (authored by Oracle employees and non-employees) has moved to this page on the Oracle Wiki. Only Oracle employees are eligible to host blogs on blogs.oracle.com.
Along with the migration came a less obvious change, blogs.oracle.com no logger aggregates non-employee blogs. Here is what Justin Kestelyn wrote in this tweet: “blogs.oracle.com will not aggregate nonemployee blogs after all – orana.info does too good a job of that!”
Currently, the total number of blogs hosted on blogs.oracle.com and aggregated by OraNA.info is 78. New blogs are being added to blogs.oracle.com. I can not keep OraNA.info current with this influx of new Oracle employee blogs.
So here is what I’m thinking: I will delete the 78 blogs.oracle.com blogs from OraNA.info, and instead aggregate one feed, the blogs.oracle.com recent posts feed. I will create one additional category on OraNA.info just for this feed. If I do that, OraNA.info will be the “one stop shop” for Oracle employee as well as non-employee blogs.
What do you think?
Update: Based on your feedback, OraNA now aggregates the blogs.oracle.com feed. I have also created the OraNA updates Twitter channel (RSS) to publish site news and recently added blogs.
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Hey Eddie,
I think that’s fair. Everything stays in the mix but you don’t have to kill yourself keeping up.
We want you working on your next web 2.0 brainstorm.
LewisC
@LewisC you’re reading my mind
Its good for me. With the regular feeds, is it possible to get a feed of new feeds. By that I mean, a feed where we can see that ‘so and so’ has been added to the aggregator. There’s some blogs where I subscribe to the comments as well as the main feed, so it would be nice to be alerted when someone new is added to the fold, so I can decide what i want to do about them,
@Gary what I can do is to add a new category to OraNA.info called “Recently Added” for example. This category will have a feed that you can subscribe to. Every time I add a new blog to the aggregator, I will also add a quick post to the “Recently Added” category on OraNA.info. I just have to remember doing that, though.
Eddie that would be great and it would avoid duplicate posts. orana.info has been my one stop shop for everything oracle anyways
I would second what Fuad said. I also like the idea of the ‘recently added” feed on oraNA.info. Your spam protector made my head hurt this morning: ten Plus Four? I had to think about that for a second. I was sure the answer was “good Buddy”
@Fuad @Bradd thanks for your feedback. @Bradd you should brush up on your math skills
FYI, non MT blogs, like ours are not yet aggregated into blogs.oracle.com. I think Carl Backstrom is also in that boat, since his is Blogger. Please keep the non-MT blogs in OraNA.info. I will buy you lunch at your restaurant of choice here or during OOW
Sounds good to me Eddie. Darn all that Oracle blogging activity!
By the way, when we read from the aggregator, is there a limit in the number of posts it sends us on a request? I note you’re definitely aggregating my blog (because I can search the OraNa.info history), yet my posts don’t always come through the aggregator.
Thanks for the great service. I really appreciate the time you put into these things for the benefit of others.
@Jake yes, I was thinking only of blogs whose URL starts with http://blogs.oracle.com. Employee blogs that are not on blogs.oracle.com will continue to be aggregated by OraNA.info. So, no need to buy me lunch, however, having a lunch with you is always a treat.
@Chris Hmm! In addition to the main feed, your blog is also aggregated under the category “Java Tools and Frameworks” http://orana.info/category/java/ (RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/orana_java) I sure can see your latest blog post there. The RSS feed has the latest 20 entries at any time.
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OK guys, implementation done. OraNA now aggregates the blogs.oracle.com feed. I have also created the OraNA updates Twitter channel (RSS) to publish site news and recently added blogs.