Using BlogBridge as a feed curation tool
A user asks:
“I want to subscribe to a list of rss feeds on a given topic, curate the article stream in some way and then have the articles come out as a RSS feed that I can feed into a publishing platform to be displayed across various platforms. Is that possible?”
Actually that’s a use case we worked on quite a bit. There are two scenarios, depending on your requirements, that you might want to use:
- Using the BlogBridge ‘pub’ subscription (for blog publishers) you can publish the chosen articles to another blog server. That’s what I do myself all the time. After talking to customers we concluded that almost always when someone is curating, they want to be able to add a word or two (or a paragraph) of comment around the article they have chosen. So, we have very flexible formatting, choosing of part or all of the curated article and so on.
The target is another blog (say a free wordpress blog) which then is subscribed to by your users/clients. Very flexible and powerful. You can have multiple target blogs (if you want to generate a curated stream for one client or population that’s different than others.) You can set up templates about what the result will look like. And we support all the popular blogging services.
- Lower end solution: use tagging. We have built in support of delicious tagging. So you could tag the articles you are choosing with a unique tag in delicious and then have your audience subscribe to an rss feed of that tag. Works very well and does not require the ‘pub’ subscription.
- Similar solution: use Twitter. We have direct integration with twitter so you can tweet your curated articles, which will include your comment plus a shortened link to the article in question. Also a very nice solution.
BlogBridge is an especially powerful tools for Blog Publishers and Blog Curators.
