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A technology network

I'm thinking of starting a new weblog network, focussing on (web) technology.

Lately, I've been thinking about weblogging networks. After being introduced to the 9 rules network, I got an idea. What the people at 9 Rules are doing is very good. High quality weblogs centralized on a single site. There are some things I'd want to do differently, and 9 Rules is very wide in terms of topics, covering just about any topic available. So I've been thinking about starting a new weblog network site, focussing purely on (web) technology-related weblogs. The website of this network would, apart of course from some information on the network, also aggregate the full content of member sites into a single overview of posts. And maybe some other ideas that would come from members of the network of course. Anyone else interested in maybe working on this? Or people who would be visitors of such a network site that have ideas of things they'd like to see on the site? Naming ideas?
December 22, 2005 - tags: weblogging

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Marko: I’ll help m8 !
December 23, 2005

Horst: Do you want to have it more in the direction of coding, software news and reviewing (like for example TechCrunch) or tech overview like for example news about the various standards?
December 23, 2005

left: Horst: well, basically, it’s a network of sites. Some network members could focus on one, others on other topics. Or even handle them both. My thought is that the network site will aggregate the content of the members sites, much like your planet gamerslog does, except in this case the weblogs that are aggregated are aware of the affiliation with the network.
December 23, 2005

Marko: ic ,that’s a nice idea stefan – hm can I make some layouts for the site or some logo maybe

December 24, 2005

Filip de Waard: Sure, I’d be interested to help out.

But what would make this different from existing blogging networks or multi-user blogs (apart from having different writers, of course)?
December 24, 2005

left: Marko, feel free to let your thoughts go on this in terms of design, logo’s, names, whatever. I can’t guarantee we’ll use it, but it can’t hurt having ideas about it

Filip: Well, for one, what I miss with most networks is a central RSS feed that contains the content of all associated weblogs. I’ve been playing with drupal and with a minor change I’ve got this working.

Any other differences would need to start existing once we’re up and running, or earlier (such as now) in the brainstorming phase.
December 25, 2005

Horst: So the weblogs would for example be hosted using one single Drupal installation?
December 25, 2005

Filip de Waard: So you mean something like http://www.planet-php.net ?

They aggregate posts from multiple blogs and put them on a single page and have a single RSS feed as well.

Their code is open source, but requires PHP 5 (http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/planet-php/trunk/).

My company (http://hosting.netcollective.nl) is going to support PHP 5 pretty soon and I suppose we would be willing to host the site, if necessary (it would be great if you would do the management, though

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December 26, 2005

left: Horst: each member will have his/her own weblog on his/her own hosting account/domain. Drupal will just be used to aggregate the information to this central website.

Filip: yes, it would be a similar setup, though I am not sure if the people that are syndicated on that site are aware of this? php5 should not be a problem, I have a dreamhost account that supports php5, but Drupal seems to be able to do the exact same thing with some minor alteration (which I’ve actually done already… I’ve got such a setup running on my local server). So I’m not really worried about the technical setup, what needs more work at this moment is the global concept, a design, and the members.
December 26, 2005

Filip de Waard: Nice

Please let me know if I can help out with something.
December 27, 2005

Marko: I made a logo and a site stefan

I was pretty busy with it today here you go logo http://www.mcville.net/misc/finallogo.jpg – and site when you return from vacation.
December 30, 2005