Blog Experiment
 

Hi,

I hacked this up as an experiment and I'd like a few opinions.

http://blogsucker.com/

It takes full RSS2 feed from a few of my blogs and some friend blogs.

I'm feeding it on purchased traffic and using it as a sort of hub to filter the traffic to niches.

If anyone wants to help me out by providing a feed please PM me.
I currently only coded it up for RSS2 ( Wordpress feeds this by default ), but if anyone wants to feed me ATOM or RSS I can try to code that up to.

It refreshes every 15 minutes, then caches the info, so you won't get any big bandwidth costs.

thanks.

Should be a cool experiment. I pm'd you my feedburner feed from my new blog and will be checking out your other plugin over the weekend. I'll let you know what I find out.

Thank's Walrus,

I'll check that out, I'll try to figure out feedburner type feeds, don't they just link to feedburner.?

I'm just figuring out how to work RSS at the moment....so this is all a bit new.

As far as a reader goes it should appear as a standard RSS2 feed. They repackage it, making it a kinder, gentler feed.

Hey wankmaster, I just sent you a PM with a daily updated feed. :)

Thanks, I fixed it up and it works fine.

I just had to hack around the feedburner html til I found the url of your feed. I used usm2 and it works fine.

Your feed is on the blog now.

I have a few ideas how to develop this concept once I get all the glitches out. But it looks good so far!

thanks again!

Thanks alessandro!

This is great, I'll take a look and see if I can figure out how to display it.

Edit:

yep that worked first time. The way I have it for a standard wordpress rss2 feed all I need to do is add your url to the list in the sidebar and the script does it.

For non rss2 I have to do a little hack to tell my script the type of feed, but eventually I want to make it so all I have to do is add a blog to the "contributing blogs" list.

The problem at the moment is when it updates it's very slow, so the first surfer in the time period has to wait. After that it's as fast as any other blog.

I'm wondering if I can put a cron job onto it or something, but I'm unsure how to make cron simulate a browser. Basically all I'm doing is using the wp-cache plugin so the blog just needs to think it has been hit every now and then. Anyone know how to do that?

thanks

Me too, maybe if your around over the weekend, we can fire up the old ICQ and discuss

Yep, I'll be around most of the time.

I'm on GMT+1 time zone. Skype works better for me, but if you don't have it and don't want to get it I'll download ICQ ( I usually end up deleting the darn thing, to many bells and whistles for my poor head ).

;-)

I can download skype, not really a big ICQ fan, I have it and the only time I ever run it is when I want to talk to another webmaster. I'm GMT-8 so I guess you'll be drinking pints and I'll be recovering from them

I have the odd half of beer now and then for medicinal purposes.

pm sent

Thanks James,

I added you feed, works like a charm.

( also replied to your pm ).

Thanks wankmaster good luck with the experiment!

must be working, im seeing traffic

It won't come fast, it's from traffic-out, but the quality should be good.

I've been up all night rewriting the cache, the way it was was no good. I've gotten it now to run as a file from the command line, but I'm having problems setting up the cron job, It works fine manually, just can't figure the crontab.

Edit: Think I've fixed the crontab now.