Will’s Similiblog

As part of my featuritis dilemma, I deliberated about having this site aggregate selected feeds, or not - and decided on not.  The intention of this site, is to permit users in an academic community to identify and submit web-based items of interest, and to socially rate and discuss this content.  I considered having it aggregate some feeds that might contain a decent concentration of items of potential interest (e.g., the BBC Health News Feed), so that these would all show up in the Health News | Upcoming items section of the site, waiting for user promotion - but it feels that this would sidestep an important social component of this project, which is user exploration and identification of items of potential interest on the ‘web.  I’d rather have users aggregate feeds of potential interest elsewhere (individually, or on a separate group platform), and submit items that they discover to be of potential interest to this project.  More on that later.

But to set up feeds aggregation on Drigg, if this is desired, is a pretty easy matter.

See the tutorial here: http://www.drigg-code.org/node/149

First - at Administer > Modules,

activate the Aggregation module (part of the core Drupal distribution) and the Drigg RSS Feeder module (part of the core Drigg distribution).

Visit Administer > site configuration > Drigg module; and under the “RSS Import” tab, set the configurations for RSS import (the default settings are a reasonable place to start).

Feeds are set up at Administer > content management > news aggregator.

If you wish authenticated users to be able to add feeds (kindof a scary notion, unless your user base is well educated & disciplined), go to Administer > user management > access control, and check “administer news feeds” for authenticated users.

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