At long last, I finally made good on iterating my 6-month-old idea to consolidate local Bloomington area bloggers into one site (). A couple of surges on the Politic Exchange unconference wiki and by the Hoosier Times Slugged blog resulted in a reasonably substantial list of blog sites. After fighting my semester schedule for time—and losing—I got around to it in the wee hours last night.
Introducing … CommunitySchmunity.
This tab is essentially the same list blogroll we had before, reconfigured with some MyBlogLog and Meebo room widgets and an RSS feed reader. Feedlist is currently powering it, although it doesn’t have quite the same controls or formatting options I was after. There was a randomizer that I couldn’t get to work, and the date of the post excerpts aren’t showing up. I can probably hack something, eventually. It is all just temporary until my ISP can get cURL working to support Simple Pie, which seems to meet most of my needs.
It would also be ideal if this could split into two kinds of feeds—one for Bloomington blogs and another for the ones I like and want to share. Feed readers aren’t clicking for me; I like to have the content show up while browsing and having one place I can go to review what’s new. Aggregation fills the bill in both cases, plus it adds public promotion of such favorited sites.
If anyone knows of more Monroe County blogs, please add to the list or just comment here.