Comments on: Syndication Machines (plus syndication of syndication)

By: Reaping the Dead ds106 Links - CogDogBlog

Reaping the Dead ds106 Links - CogDogBlog — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:39:10 +0000

[...] rather annoying grain of sand in the ds106 machine of syndication is the loss of web sites when students give up their domains, or just obliterate their blogs after [...]

By: Shortcodes, Widgets, ‘n Duct Tape - CogDogBlog

Shortcodes, Widgets, ‘n Duct Tape - CogDogBlog — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:53:49 +0000

[...] It comes in handy for PHP work on WordPress sites as well. You should know that the main internal organ that makes the magic of the ds106 site do what it does is the Feed WordPress plugin. This is what allows us to add external blogs to be auto republished inside our site, and as well resyndicate it out to our satellite sites. [...]

By: The State of Aggregation at UMW | bavatuesdays

The State of Aggregation at UMW | bavatuesdays — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:04:00 +0000

[...] project, which means a large number will be self-hosted blogs. And we’ll depend a lot more on the Syndication of Syndication approach, which is exciting because thanks to Martha Burtis, the sign-up of Domain of One’s Own will [...]

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:13:11 +0000

Re: consuming stuff into buddypress Lincoln Uni have some JISC funded work looking at collecting links to resources from different services authored by a user (the use case is academics depositing oer’s where they like and maintaining a central record, but could be used in a mooc assignment aggregation mode). http://bebop.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/13/bebop-in-a-nutshell/

I’ve also started collecting ds106 tweets in this Google Spreadsheet (auto updates every 24 hrs) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqGkLMU9sHmLdGVFbnVNNVV6NGV6eVFkR3RpZm1pYWc#gid=82 Might have a play with the data and see what I can come up with …

By: Submitting OERs using the OER Commons bookmarklet | ClintLalonde.net

Submitting OERs using the OER Commons bookmarklet | ClintLalonde.net — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:09:49 +0000

[...] can see what the finished assignment will look/sound like (for WP buffs, Alan Levine touches on how they did this using WordPress tags). And, once a student completes an assignment, they can then rate the [...]

By: Google Spreadsheet Template for getting social activity around RSS feeds JISC CETIS MASHe

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:43:00 +0000

[...] post from Alan Levine (@cogdog) on Syndication Machines (plus syndication of syndication) which details how feeds for the cMOOC course ds106 are aggregated and resyndicated got me thinking [...]

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:35:47 +0000

Really painful? Ouch, you must work harder than me ;-)

Actually both gRSShopper and Feedwordpress pull the content in locally. The difference I was alluding to is that in gRSShopper when you comment on a post, the comments live on the host (the aggregating site).

In Feedwordpress, you have the option for comments to take place on the host blog or to link back to the original post- we opt for the latter.

I can see positive points to both approaches, and in general, the aggregation of comments remains elusive.

I’m curious about the possibilities of linking twitter activity to posts (I need to check out that API). One of the feeds we also subscribe to is the RSS feed for the ds106 hash tag that I have being saved as a WordPress custom post type- there might be ways to tie in the connection to posts (as well we have some Buddypress things lined up to grab tweets, flickr posts, and youtube activity by people with accounts).

Thanks for the sharecount, that’s got some nifty potential.

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:52:31 +0000

Thanks for the hat tip. It was an extremely painful post to write and only after main edits did aggregation appear. Your post is very useful to continue the thought around the details of aggregation and re-syndication.

One difference in the ds106 approach … is that comments on content from original sites are made inside a gRSShopper powered site, while at ds106, the comments live at the original sites and we do whatever is possible to syndicate those in as well (the hitch being not all sites provide that functionality). On one hand it brings what might be a fragmented conversation together (gRSShopper sites), but as an individual publisher, I totally prefer comments being at the level of my posts.

So to summarise gRSShopper pulls content in for further comment, ds106/FeedWordPress pulls comment links to redirect people to the conversation at the source.

This got me thinking whether it would be useful to pull secondary activity around posts (tweets, saves, shares). In particular I’m thinking if you’re talking about massive scale having a way of discovering posts which are generating strong social reaction might be useful. [Tapping the sharedcount.com api might be a quick way of doing this]

The other more experimental idea would be given Twitter appears strongly in the cMOOC tech cloud extract a tweet sharing a post url and then rebuild any threaded conversation … not entire sure what you would do with this but again a long thread might be an indicator of something.

Martin