The Planetarium
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This document discusses aggregating web feeds to create "planets", which are websites that compile multiple feeds into a single page. It introduces several tools for creating planets, including Planet, Plagger, and Perlanet. Perlanet is a simpler Perl version of Planet that the author created, which takes a list of web feeds and produces both a website and aggregated feed. The document encourages using Perlanet to build local planets for neighborhoods to help people feel more connected to their community. It provides tips for setting up planets and notes that testing more feeds helps improve the software by finding bugs.
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The Planetarium
- 1. The Planetarium Dave Cross [email_address]
- 2. Better living through feed aggregation
- 3. Web feeds make my life better
- 4. I no longer have to visit my favourite sites individually
- 5. I just visit Google Reader and all my favourite sites are there
- 6. I can consume data at least 10 times more efficiently
- 7. Which frees up a lot more of my time
- 8. To spend with family and friends
- 10. Gives me time to consume 10 times as much data
- 11. Lots of good information in web feeds
- 12. Blogs
- 13. News
- 14. Email
- 15. Twitter
- 16. Every site produces web feeds
- 17. (Well every site except Facebook)
- 18. Reading web feeds is easy
- 19. Let's do something more interesting
- 20. Let's aggregate web feeds
- 21. We'll need some software
- 22. Planet
- 24. Give it a list of web feeds
- 25. It produces a web site
- 26. And another aggregated web feed
- 28. Planet is written in Python
- 29. That's a problem for some people
- 30. Perl could do that too right?
- 31. Enter Plagger
- 33. Typically flashy Perl project web site
- 34. Plagger does everything that Planet does
- 36. But it does so much more as well
- 37. I wanted something simpler
- 38. Something closer to a Perl version of Planet
- 39. So I wrote Perlanet
- 40. Yes Terrible name I know
- 41. (Perlanet doesn't even have a web site yet)
- 42. But it does everything that Planet does
- 43. Give it a list of web feeds
- 44. It produces a web site
- 45. And another aggregated web feed
- 46. I use it to build planets
- 51. Planet Balham got me thinking
- 52. London is a big city
- 53. But many people have little connection to their neighbourhood
- 54. After reading Planet Balham for a few weeks I felt more connected
- 55. I built more local planets
- 56. Planet Tooting
- 57. Planet Clapham
- 58. Planet Streatham
- 59. Easy to set up and configure
- 60. YAML config file
- 61. Template Toolkit for output
- 63. Many feed URLs can be calculated
- 65. http://news.google.com/ news/?q= balham &output=atom
- 66. Just the query string needs to change
- 67. Not a foolproof method
- 70. Can set up a planet in less than an hour
- 71. Good starting set of feeds
- 75. Twitter
- 76. Other feeds need local knowledge
- 77. Local bloggers
- 78. Local twitterers
- 79. MPs, MEPs & Councillors
- 80. Local reviews
- 81. To do list
- 83. XML::Feed uses XML::RSS and XML::Atom
- 84. All four modules have bugs
- 85. Still tracking them down
- 86. Module bugs vs Broken feeds
- 87. The more feeds we test the more bugs we find