A Local Discovery
Submitted by jim on Mon, 02/07/2005 - 13:54
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I just discovered a new local (to me) movie blogger via a column in my local paper. Steve Satullo's the name, and he's orchestrating a "Dozen Directors Under 50" film series at the Clark Art Institute this summer. Note that Tarantino's exclusion is intentional. I personally can't get on board with that, but I found plenty to agree with in his offerings so far, and he writes well. Welcome to movie blogging, Steve!
Jim, is the Listology Front page the only thing that you currently syndicate? Did you ever consider having the ability to view the non-front page posting user's weblogs via syndication? Even if it was just one big syndicated list not broken up by user, that would be awesome. Also, when I click on the direct Syndicate link, http://www.listology.com/index_rdf.cfm, from the front page it generates an error.
I worry a bit about the bandwidth issues of embracing RSS whole hog. There are certainly lots of things I could syndicate: searches, user-specific feeds, etc. I think I'm going to hold off on those though.
There is one other feed:
http://www.listology.com/listology_rdf.cfm
It is basically Recent Activity in RSS form. Right now it only works for Bloglines though, again for bandwidth reasons. I could probably open it up to other centralized aggregators on request, but I'm not real inclined to open it up to desktop aggregators at the moment.
OK, Jim, how about this. The front page lists items that a few of us post to our weblogs in certain categories, Movies, Music, Books and Television, I believe.
I am very interested in what is being posted to Listologs weblogs that can't be posted to the front page either because it isn't posted by the right user or it isn't in the right category.
Would it be possible for you to make a page which shows weblog posts for all users across all categories? I'm not even remotely suggesting it should replace the front page. I would just bookmark it and use it as an alternative Front Page.
Thanks, Much!
Dan
Here ya go!
Awesome! Did you have to create that page or did it already exist?
:-) It was easy; I just reused the existing home page, passed it a "show all" param, and then did a little IF around the code that filters by editors and genre based on that new param.