Inspired by Jeff Waugh's Planet Gnome and a suggestion by Robert Love [interview], KernelTrap is now offering a feed of multiple kernel hacker journals. Thus, it's now possible to view the latest journals from several kernel hackers with one click: http://kerneltrap.org/hackers/linux
Journals currently included are from the following hackers: Robert Love, David Woodhouse, David Miller, John Levon, William Lee Irwin III, Arnaldo Melo, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Pete Zaitcev, Zwane Mwaikambo, and Patrick Mochel. I am very interested in adding additional journals, though for this to be possible it must be exported through an RSS feed. If you are aware of actively updated kernel hacker journals with RSS-feeds that I've not included, please let me know.
At this time I only include journals from Linux kernel hackers simply because as of yet I've not found any active non-Linux kernel hacker journals that have an RSS feed. As I find new active journals, they will begin appearing at the above URL.
Hopefully this new service will be useful to you. Enjoy!
technical problem
There's a problem with the code I'm using to import RSS feeds. While trying to fix it, my DSL/phone line has decided to act up. I have to deal with the latter before I can deal with the former. Hopefully this will all be resolved today.
re: technical problem
Problem solved, but I had to dump all the nodes and start over... Anyway, all content is now restored.
Enjoy...
cool
I enjoy reading the comments from these great names of kernel hackerdom. You can catch a glimpse inside their mind and how they handle problems. Very excellent, keep up the good work and all.
latest from each
It looks to me like you're just showing the latest entries as they show up, even if it's the same person making the entries. This has the effect of making a few of the more frequent bloggers dominate the page.
Would it make sense to have the latest 1 or maybe 2 from each UNIQUE person? This way, any one person would not dominate.
Just a suggestion...
re: latest from each
I've given this a little thought, but I think that would make it more confusing. How would you know if a person had additional entries? And what about people that haven't updated their journal for a year? And what about people who view this page every day -- the content wouldn't be changing much at all...
I may try and find a way to make it so at least multiple blogs by the same person in the same day show up as one entry -- but this will take me quite a lot of work on the back end. Enough work that it's unlikely I'll ever get to it... (The current design allows remote updates to trigger an update here -- bunching them altogether will make this much more difficult, though of course not impossible)
I will consider only showing one entry per day per person (the latest). Otherwise someone putting 10 quick entries in their journal throughout the day will mean nothing else shows up... I think this will address your primary concern.
Ideally, we want all kernel hackers to update their journals regularily! Instead of sleeping, that is. Definitely not instead of coding... ;)
my two cents
As someone who tends to post a few entries in rapid succession at a time, I favor the idea of only showing the latest one. I wouldn't want to crowd the page :-)
Cheers,
Muli
re: my two cents
I'm still trying to come up with a MySQL call that will offer something like this. It turns out to be more complicated than it sounds, thanks to the joining of three tables and a number of other rules already involved in retrieving the current page...
An alternative approach I'm considering is to give users the ability to select which journal feeds they want to view...
one entry per person works
Yup, that'd do it. Or your proposal to let users select which feeds they see, which might be simpler.
Thanks!!!
Feed
Would it be possible to have an RSS feed of this? Sure, I could use the various feeds directly but I'd much rather not have to do the all the work of compiling the various diaries into one page that you obviously have done already ;)