techPresident - Call for Help: Make a "Presidential Campaign Blogs" Website - Comments

Hi boss!

gbinal — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:19:39 -0500

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

What I was looking for

Zephyr Teachout — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:17:20 -0500

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.

I'd suggest for people to

Raven Brooks — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:37:43 -0500

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.

SpringWidgets will allow you

AJN668 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:05:14 -0500

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

Get this widget!

The answer: Netvibes!

bradlevinson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00:36 -0500

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

Call for Help: Make a "Presidential Campaign Blogs" Website

Zephyr Teachout — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:09 -0500

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