The coolest thing ever — Total Tech Writer Blog Aggregation

November 7th, 2006 | Posted in Blogging 4 Comments »

For some time now, I’ve maintained a list of technical writing blogs on stc-suncoast.org. And I’ve had them all aggregated in my own Feeddemon newsreader. By aggregate I mean my newsreader pulls together all the content into one long flow of information, arranged chronologically. Now you can get the same effect without a newsreader — I’ve aggregated them with Blogdigger.

Here is the link of aggregated technical writing blogs: http://groups.blogdigger.com/groups.jsp?id=3412

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Holly Harkness says:

November 7, 2006 at 12:51 pm

Hey, Tom,
My blog shows up in your list, but my postings don’t show up in the search results. Is is possible my RSS isn’t working?
Holly

Tom says:

November 7, 2006 at 9:49 pm

The Blogdigger people say they are having DNS issues. I didn’t initially realize how many blogs weren’t showing. I’m hoping it balances out after a day or so. Maybe it takes a while for the feedmesh to update.

November 8, 2006 at 6:29 am

Thanks!

And the aggregator is a good idea. I use NetVibes and have a page of tech writing blogs there. I’ll compare my list with yours.

November 8, 2006 at 6:38 am

I was unaware of netvibes. It looks like a cool service. I imagine you have tons of portlets from dozens of different feeds you monitor.

I think the blogdigger thing is still very much in beta, because it was showing 2 yr old posts from one person’s site as if they were just posted. Maybe I jumped the gun on promoting that site.

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