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January 30, 2005
Planet aggregator up and running
We now have a Planet aggregator running that collects up posts from everyone involved in CSCS (who has a weblog). Many thanks to Jon for suggesting it and Matt for taking the lead on getting it installed and set up!
An aggregator, in this context, gathers information. The particular information it gathers is a short blurb from a weblog. This way, as CSCS participants (who have weblogs) make updates to their site, it is easy for us to see all the changes in one place. This will help, we think, in coordinating the new Atomic Death Robot initiative. (Well, all the stuff we're doing with the Brainstem and Budget Robotics platforms).
The aggregator is running at cscs.cs-ed.org/planet. You can view it there. If you would like your weblog included in the list of blogs it tracks, drop a note.
The aggregator will update (at most) once per day. However, if your weblog is in the list of those being tracked, you can actually force the CSCS aggregator to update whenever you update your weblog. Here's how:
- In your weblog editing tool (or, from the web-based interface, if you post through the WWW), find the bit about "pings"; this part of the interface indicates which services on the WWW should be alerted to the fact that you've updated your page.
- Add to the list http://rpc.cs-ed.org/cscs/ping.cgi.
That should be it. If all goes well, whenever you update your weblog (and ping that script), then the aggregator will update as well, and your most recent post will be included in the list immediately.
Posted by mjadud at January 30, 2005 03:29 PM