| Imagine being able to know the latest of what's going on around the Obama blogosphere, in one place. What does that mean?
I've set up a single RSS Feedreader that collect together all of the Obama blogger feeds in the blogosphere.
Why is this amazing?
For one thing, I've included not only the RSS feed of Obama blogs, BUT DailyKos also sets up Feedburner feeds for each of its diarists, so I can include them as well. I did a trial run of including icebergslim and Geekesque. I'll be expanding the list of blogs and bloggers in the Reader to include a broader and broader swath of the Obama blogosphere. I was also wondering whether to include the official Obama headquarters blogs (New Media HQ, Students for Barack Obama, etc) in this feed or to create a separate feed reader? I think I want to keep them separate just because our real mission is to highlight the efforts of independent bloggers --- the efforts that you might not hear about anywhere else. Our goal is not to replicate the Obama website but to do the things that it doesn't do. Problems: It's not a widget, so it's not exportable, so no one can take this feature and put it on their own website --- which is what Vermonter originally suggested. I'll keep working on this. Other Changes: I've also at least temporarily scrapped the "Quick Hits" section and merged it with the Front Page. This allows us to move the Recommended Diaries list to the top of the page --- which helps us stress its importance. The "Livefeed" will also hopefully cover the need for a "Quick Hits" section by delivering breaking news. Anyway, what do you think? |
