The other day, a member of the Alfresco community pointed out to me that while it is great we have so many people blogging on Alfresco topics–from authors both inside and outside the company–there isn’t a single aggregated feed of all of those valuable sources of information. I completely agree.
While we do have the blogs page, the technology we’re using to produce that is a bit cumbersome to keep updated. And that feed is mostly Alfresco employees. We also recently launched www.socialcontent.com, but that does not have links to a universal blog roll either.
To address this, I’ve created several new feeds in Yahoo Pipes. There’s one feed for each of the following:
- Alfresco Employee Blogs. Blogs written by current Alfresco employees.
- Alfresco Partner Blogs. Blogs written by formal Alfresco partners. These could be the partner’s corporate blog or employees of that partner.
- Alfresco Community Blogs. Blogs written by anyone in the ecosystem that’s not an employee and who doesn’t work for a partner.
- All Alfresco Blogs. An aggregation of the three feeds above plus the already-existing Activiti Team feed.
This should let you subscribe to specific feeds according to your needs.
Now, there’s no way I got everyone on my first pass. If I missed your blog, no worries! The whole point of using Pipes is to make it easier to maintain. To get listed, just shoot me an email with your ATOM feed and which bucket you belong in or respond to this blog post with the same and I’ll add you at my next opportunity.
At some point, hopefully in the near future, we’ll clean up blogs.alfresco.com with a new look-and-feel and we’ll switch the data source to use these feeds. Until then, add one or more of these to your feed reader and enjoy.
I like the idea of you playing arround with Yahoo Pipes. I’ve got some pipes setup for myself and indeed it is a good way to harvest specific content. But why not taking it a step further and bringing these pipes straight into Alfresco and use the Alfresco Magic to turn the content into something more valuable by adding meta-data, make them searchable, put them in a review workflow, republish or archive it ? I do believe that the “social” strenght of Alfresco could be Alfresco as a collector of social content where it can be tagged commented, saved, re-organized and re-distributed in or out the organization.
Hi Jeff,
Can you add me to the Alfresco Community Blogs bucket.
My blog feed is: http://blog.mitco-solutions.com/rss
Thanks and Great Job btw.
I like this idea. The process of requesting a new entry in the feed, routing that for approval, and adding the entry could be automated with an Alfresco workflow as well. Hmm, I smell the need for a Yahoo Pipes integration for Alfresco as a community-driven open source project!
Jeff
Tahir,
I’ve added your blog. Thanks!
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
could you please add my company and my blog to the Alfresco Partner Blogs pipe?
My blog:
http://www.open4dev.com/journal/rss.xml
Sourcesense blog:
http://www.sourcesense.com/buzz/feed/
Thank you.
Pj
This is awesome! One-stop shopping for all things Alfresco.
Can you add my blog? jajatips.blogspot.com. I wrote about java and alfresco
Done! Thanks, dimka.
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your work with the community, you have made a great start!
Could be nice if there is an overview of the actual included blogs, not just the posts. So I’m not sure if you have picked up mine, if not, my blog is at http://loftux.com/blog/ and the feed http://loftux.com/feed/
@Jeff: could you please add my feed to the Community Blogs pipe? Thanks!
RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Skuro
Great Initiative Jeff.
Can you please add my blog? http://onalfresco.blogspot.com/
I write on Alfreaco, Share etc.
Thanks
Snig.
Snig, Skuro, and Peter,
I’ve added you to the aggregated Alfresco Community blog feed. Thanks for submitting!
Jeff