Comments on: Grand Text Auto is Back http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/ Nick Montfort Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Erik Hanson http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Erik Hanson Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:59:53 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/#comment-493 <p>I would appreciate having even a one-way feed of comments. In the rare moment when I feel I have something truly worthwhile to add, I'd be willing to sign in at individual sites.</p> I would appreciate having even a one-way feed of comments. In the rare moment when I feel I have something truly worthwhile to add, I’d be willing to sign in at individual sites.

]]> By: Mark J. Nelson http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Mark J. Nelson Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:39:16 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/#comment-491 <p>@Ian: I researched that at one point, and the aggregator software makers seem not to want to touch it, since supporting two-way comment aggregation (where you can post on the aggregator, too) with multiple blog-software backends and multiple registration policies is a nightmare. The Planet aggregator in particular explicitly doesn't plan to support anything that can't be done one-way solely from the backend-agnostic data in the RSS/Atom/RDF feeds.</p> <p>Drupal can do it if you're solely aggregating Drupal-backed blogs and using Drupal's own aggregator, but those are some strongish restrictions...</p> @Ian: I researched that at one point, and the aggregator software makers seem not to want to touch it, since supporting two-way comment aggregation (where you can post on the aggregator, too) with multiple blog-software backends and multiple registration policies is a nightmare. The Planet aggregator in particular explicitly doesn’t plan to support anything that can’t be done one-way solely from the backend-agnostic data in the RSS/Atom/RDF feeds.

Drupal can do it if you’re solely aggregating Drupal-backed blogs and using Drupal’s own aggregator, but those are some strongish restrictions…

]]> By: Michael Mateas http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Michael Mateas Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:10:49 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/#comment-489 <p>Congratulations are in order to Expressive Intelligence Studio student Josh McCoy for setting up the aggregator. It turns out that no solutions worked out-of-the-box for this; Josh did alot of working piecing together plugins, contacting plugin authors for bug fixes, etc. to make this work.</p> <p>Ian, I agree that feeding the comments would be useful. We'll look into it.</p> <p>-Michael</p> Congratulations are in order to Expressive Intelligence Studio student Josh McCoy for setting up the aggregator. It turns out that no solutions worked out-of-the-box for this; Josh did alot of working piecing together plugins, contacting plugin authors for bug fixes, etc. to make this work.

Ian, I agree that feeding the comments would be useful. We’ll look into it.

-Michael

]]> By: Ian Bogost http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Ian Bogost Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:13:46 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/#comment-487 <p>Are you guys going to feed the comments somehow too? It seems that GTxA has always been a comments-heavy blog, with conversations in the comments often become as interesting, or more, than the original posts.</p> Are you guys going to feed the comments somehow too? It seems that GTxA has always been a comments-heavy blog, with conversations in the comments often become as interesting, or more, than the original posts.

]]> By: Mark Musante http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/comment-page-1/#comment-486 Mark Musante Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:37:05 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/2009/07/grand-text-auto-is-back/#comment-486 <p>That makes it a Grand unified feed of Text that is Auto matically generated. It finally lives up to its name!</p> That makes it a Grand unified feed of Text that is Auto matically generated. It finally lives up to its name!

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