[wp-hackers] invitation develop a reBlog plugin for WordPress

[Kimmo Suominen]

Hi Michael,

This is sort of what I'm currently doing with a modified version of
Feed on Feeds that adds "clipping" of articles, and a script I put
together to publish the clipped articles.

I see several benefits in tying that into WordPress:

- publishing in more than one category, e.g. to highlight articles
  I found especially interesting
- additional commentary
- (outbound) RSS feed: I see that reBlog already has this, but I also
  like the idea that the feed could be combined with other categories
  from a blog
- searching

I'd be interested in writing a plugin for WordPress.  I'm no guru,
so this should not hold anyone else back from volunteering as well.

Cheers,
+ Kim
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<A HREF="http://kimmo.suominen.com/">Kimmo Suominen</A>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:23:30AM -0400, Michael Frumin wrote:
> The reBlog software is bipartite.  The first part is an online RSS
> reader, where you either "publish" or "delete" each post.
> 
> The MT plugin allows you to import into MT (via an RSS feed from the
> first part) the posts that you have selected to "publish". It also
> implements certain functionality in MT to store and display the
> necessary metadata for attribution of each republished post (i.e. this
> post was originally written by AUTHOR at ORIGINAL BLOG, etc.).
> 
> Interested to help copy the functionality for wordpress?
> 
> -mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > To: mfrumin at eyebeam.org
> > Subject: [wp-hackers] invitation develop a reBlog plugin for WordPress
> > 
> > What does the plugin allow you to do in MT?
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:16:07 -0400, Michael Frumin <mfrumin at
> > eyebeam.org> wrote:
> > > Hello WordPress hackers,
> > >
> > > I am the developer behind the reBlog project.  As described at
> > > http://www.reblog.org: A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering
> > and
> > > republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers
> > subscribe
> > > to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their
> > favorite
> > > posts. These posts are automatically published [with attribution]
> > > through their favorite blogging software.
> > >
> > > Eyebeam has successfully used this system to easily build a great
> > > new-media-arts-and-technology site with good readership that has
> been
> > a
> > > boon for our organization (http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog).  A fair
> > > number of people are using the system to create their own reBlogs,
> but
> > > currently the only plugin we have is for MovableType.
> > >
> > > I have received numerous requests for a WordPress plugin, so I was
> > > wondering if anyone might desire to collaborate on this.  WordPress
> > > seems like a great tool with really widespread usage, and I'd love
> to
> > be
> > > able to get WordPress users reBlogging.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael Frumin
> > > Research Fellow
> > > Eyebeam