David informed me that he doesn’t have the cycles to maintain his Accessible Planet site. As I’ve gotten some comments from people interested in an a11y news aggregator, I went on the hunt again for a solution.
Gary came up with an interesting idea: create a shared Google Reader aggregate feed. The result is something very much like a Planet instance, but with Google doing the aggregation and hosting. I added most of the feed URLs from David’s existing site, slapped a subdomain together to (partially) hide the big, ugly Google permalink, and voila: Accessibility Daily.
I’d like to give it a test run as an alternative to a Planet for now. Feel free to subscribe to the Atom feed or visit the HTML page. If you’d like your site listed, post a comment or shoot me an email with a link to your feed (preferably one that includes accessibility related news only).
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Hi Peter, this is definitely worth a try. One thing I struggled with was defining the theme of my a11y planet. We might want to consider narrowing it down… not sure.
One of my favorite parts about planets are the bubbly heads. They put faces to the words. How could we ad that? I have become pretty competent in Yahoo Pipes, they are addictive.
Could you add my blog?
It would be great if you could make a Pipe that injects hackergotchis. Let me know how that turns out.
Let me know what tag or category you post a11y news under on your blog, and I’ll add it.
Here is a start…
http://pipes.yahoo.com/eeejays_pipes/a11y_feeds
You could add feeds to it by editing the following wiki page:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Accessibility/Blogs
Hi Peter,
Could you also add my feed to the list. http://mark.doffman.com/index.php/category/accessibility/. I’m working on AT-SPI D-Bus, and may have something to contribute.
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