A Blog Roundup Experiment
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Thanks to Grand Strand Blogger Bonnie Shull (one of the posters at the family blog Killer Robot Clan), I’m going to try out an experiment. People love the blog roundups, but they are labor intensive enough that even in our fairly small community they have burned out the contributors (which to date has only ever been Bonnie and me. Step up, GSB!)
Bonnie pointed out this plugin, which allows for automatic digest posts of an RSS feed. I’m going to set one up that aggregates our whole blogroll. Once a day, a post will be generated here for all the GSB posts in the previous 24 hours. It will lack the personal touch, but it will in fact happen at all, which is better than the human intervention has been. Leave some feedback in the comments whether you’d prefer infrequent human roundups or clockwork machine roundups. Voting for the former carries a whole lot more weight if you are also volunteering to do some. That’s kind of how it works in community labor situations. Thanks, GS Bloggers!