Feeding on feeds
I'm interested to see services like Superblog and Suprglu, which offer instant aggregation of feeds you might generate whilst using Flickr and Del.icio.us and the like.
Interested because I've had an idea bubbling in my mind in recent weeks - to create some weblog-style projects that are built in exactly that manner. If Rising Slowly ever rises from the ashes (and its demise is another story, which I'll hopefully be in a position to tell you shortly), I'd quite like it to rise in this way - as something simpler to scan, from the reader's point of view, and quicker to write, from mine.
I imagine the result to be a mishmash of short links, photos culled from various sources, and occasional longer posts as and when I see fit.
I'm interested in creating a bunch of such sites, on various themes that interest me. I'd like to create one about interesting maps and techniques of mapping, and another about 'Englishness' (what is England, what makes its people English, how does the rest of the world perceive England?).
None of these subjects are going to get the high traffic that would interest any of the 'traditional' 'weblog publishing networks', but I'm still quite tempted to try and create them myself anyway.
What I need to find is a simple way of building such sites. My technical prowess is almost as non-existant as my eye for visual design, but I know how to use the del.icio.us Javascript feeds to generate a custom feed of links (I really like the way you can limit the feed to just one tag of your choice), and the Flickr badge system to do something fairly similar with pictures. The end result is something like this. There'd be some temptation to add some auto-generated ads (Google Adsense? Some Yahoo alternative? Is there a Yahoo alternative?) at the bottom.
All this is just thinkings-aloud at the moment. I'll get back to you when I've thought something more useful.
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