Will’s Similiblog

I’ve recently added another component to the site, which is added as well to the sandbox site I’ve set up. Inspired a bit tangentially by D’Arcy Norman’s elaboration on the EduGlu concept, I’ve mucked together a socially-rated news section on the site, which

• imports rss feeds from a variety of sources (as this is for a medical school, I’m using the health news feeds from the BBC and NPR, along with several health/medicine related blogs);
• aggregates these on a “raw news items” page;
• permits social rating by our user community;
• promotes “voted up” stories to a “promoted news” page; and
• permits community tagging and threaded commenting on news articles.

Since I’m already using the Aggregation module (for import of external user blog postings into our community blog), I needed to add a second aggregation module; and for this chose to use the feedapi module. I was concerned at first that the two aggregation modules might conflict, but these (Aggregation and Feedapi) appear to play together well.

So in addition to the arrangement detailed so far, I’ve added the modules:

feedapi
community_tags
extra_voting_forms
votingapi

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