Call for Help: Make a "Presidential Campaign Blogs" Website
By Zephyr Teachout, 02/28/2007 - 12:00pm

Could some inventive designer make a website displaying the full blog posts off all the Presidential campaign blogs, in chronological order?

Update: Someone already did!

oh-ate

It will make blogging for this site easier! I could, of course, get a feed from each myself, but my interest in the race waxes and wanes, and it would be useful to have a single page with all candidate blog posts. Also, it might encourage some playful combat -- maybe even on issues? -- that could be fun.

It might be especially delightful during the debates, reading a scroll of "Richardson Dominates the Debate," "Obama Electrifies the Debate," "Hillary is Electric!", "Biden Takes on Richardson," etc. Spin is much more fun when its displayed in context.

The answer: Netvibes!

Hi Zephyr,

Have you tried Netvibes? You can create up to four columns of content, and add RSS feeds all onto one page. I think this might be what you're looking for! The benefit of it is that it displays the content much like a newspaper website -- so rather than getting "e-mail"-like RSS content (you had mentioned that your interest wanes, so no use in everything piling up), it just lists the last 10 or so stories (the number is customizable).

Hope this helps!
- Brad

SpringWidgets will allow you

SpringWidgets will allow you to add custom feeds to a Widget that you can post in Blogs, Social Networking Profiles and download to your desktop so you wont have to go to the web for news feeds.

See the link here... http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/23

AJN668



I'd suggest for people to

I'd suggest for people to have a look at this post: http://www.techpresident.com/node/79 and then use something like Yahoo's new pipes service to roll their own personal feeds (pipes.yahoo.com).

That way if you are only interested in the democratic field you can grab everyone, or maybe you just want speeches, you could grab rss for candidates that provide that, etc.

What I was looking for

And I found - in oh-ate -- is a public place where feeds come together, so people could all refer to the same canon. If they create a space for conversation around it, then we can talk about the different candidates choices and stances around the feed, instead of all referring to different feeds. The other thing I like about oh-ate--though others may have specific candidates they follow --is that I find it easy to get caught up in the mainstreammedia and mainstreamblogospheres' foci on Hillary, Obama, Guiliani -- I want to see Ron Paul and Kucinich and Dodd on equal footing, and displayed on equal footing, without the distorting effect of annointed "frontrunner" stati. Is it stati, or stasuses? I never took latin.

Hi boss!

I didn't know you were here? Will you be regularly blogging at techpresident?

Nice idea for a blog. I hope to follow it as well.

Gray



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