2008年4月28日月曜日

Feed aggregation as "multiude"

Many bloggers join the "Eyes on Tibet" movement and I have made a page that shows recent entries about Tibet of them.
This page is produced by Yahoo Pipes service.
All feeds of the bloggers are aggretated and filtered by words "Tibet". This aggregation makes a feed itself. The generated feed contains various entries with variouse levels and viewpoints of the bloggers.

It can be used by many other services like
  • making a badge you can see right sidebar of this blog
  • Eyes on Tibet tumblr for archiving
  • start page service like iGoogle, My Yahoo, netvibes (see the Yahoo pipes page for detail)
I think this kind of feed aggregation can be cocieved as an instanciation of "multitude".

No need for "center" of the movement. Bloggers write entries just as they do everyday. They can write about not only political themes but also musics they like, programming, net services they use, lunch menus they cooked for or ate with their partners. Their blogs have no unique goal just as their everyday lives but some part of them aggregates and generate a big common concern and can be shown as a "Eyes on Tibet today" page.

And you can use the generated results any way as you like.