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By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:09:34 +0000

That has some potential for some fun theme hacking. I’ve done FeedWordPress only on a small scale, but know you can import the feeds and then either cross assign external blog tags to internal or to turn them into categories, which would provide what is needed to create some pages maybe that do the aggregation.

It might call for a strict tag hierarchy that could be outlined on a cheat sheet.

#ds106 (tag for everything)
+ — #weekly1 (weekly assignment 1)
+ — #weekly2 (weekly assignment 2)

And maybe there could be optional daily creative making prompts, people could choose to to say 3 per week?

+ — #daily1
+ — #daily2
+ — #daily3

These could switch up- one day it is a photo assignment, the next it is a comic, or locating a video, etc.

If we stick to the individual blog as a source, it could be aggregated as you already know how to do, and its a matter of making some custom WP templates. The dailies’ could be simple titles and link inside to the full entry, the weeklies maybe a blo excerpt, and then inside have the full normal blog stream as its own page/template.

By: Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:15:22 +0000

Man, with you on board I have no more doubts, and it means I can actually start thinking through that dailyshoot design with you (and others), and maybe see it through. What do you think of turning the frontpage of ds106.us into a kind of dailyshoot visual based theme that highlishts the work happening at the moment. Additionally, perhaps provide a way—like I tried on http://ds106.umwblogs.org—to filter assignmens/submissions by tag (gonna avoid categories cause FeedWordPress kinda chokes on them.

If we come up with a glossary of assignment tags (and even some places for loose tags that remain unassigned assignment wise) we could turn ds106.us into a well-oiled and tag filtered site. What’s more, we could use delciious and flickr to filter examples for each assignment as well as flickr for daily shoots.

I really think dailyshoot online for all kinds of storytelling devices is exactly what we need?

Sorry to throw up in your comments, but now I am getting excited ;)