Brighton Bloggers

The time has come where I need to think about writing an administration system for this site. When BrightonBloggers first started, there were about 25 blogs, and new ones trickled through at one or two every few months. At the moment, the list of blogs is handwritten HTML, and updates are taking too long - the only automated aspect is the comment system which is a reuse of the PHP/mySQL system I crafted for my blog. I currently have another 13 blogs waiting to be added. Just to help you get the picture of the current process, currently, every time I add a blog I do the following:

• Update the blogs page
• Create a "New blogs" blog entry
• Add the blog to the rss aggregator
• Add the link to google coop to power the search
• Add the blog owner to the mailing list
• Email the blog owner to let them know that they are added
• Refresh the OPML file

Jonathan emailed me with some suggestions a while ago, which was much appreciated. His suggestions were:

• categorisation of blogs - personal, technical, commercial etc
• pruning of dead blogs

So, feedback I'd like (in the comments will do fine) is:

• What do you look for when you view the blogs link page?
• Would categorisation be useful?
• Do you ever use the search?
• Would you be interested in being able to get hold of the rss feed for a blog as well as a normal url?
• Does anyone use the opml file to subscribe to all (rss-enabled) brighton blogs?
• Does anyone (other than me) subscribe to the aggregated rss feed?

Of course, any other feedback would be fantastic too :-)

Labels: admin, sussexdigital

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