[WSIS CS-Plenary] request for comments: wsis blog aggregator

[Andy Carvin]

That would be my preference as well, Vittorio, but unfortunately the 
aggregating software will not do that. Hopefully for the next prepcom 
and for wsis itself we will be able to set up a more dynamic aggregator 
that will let readers sort the content by date, author, language, topic, 
etc.

As for the algorithm, it is supposed to check content every hour. I am 
using a free aggregator tool called RSS digest, so I have no control 
over the algorithm itself. I will see if I can check its settings. I had 
noticed a similar problem with Rik's blog entries, but from what I could 
tell the problem was with the RSS feed and not the aggregator. I will 
look into it, though.

thanks,
ac

Vittorio Bertola wrote:


> Nice work! My only suggestion is that you should order posts by (reversed)
> posting date order, not by author. That way visitors can immediately get
> the latest news independently from who's posting them.
> 
> Also, please check your collation algorithm - for example, for my blog it
> seems that you're picking up from the feed the 10 *oldest* posts, and
> leaving out the recent ones.
> 
> But again, thanks for doing this!

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