Budi Putra, jurnalis media Koran Tempo, mewawancarai saya beberapa waktu lalu mengenai Planet Terasi yang saya kelola dan aggregator secara umum.
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Bagaimana masa depan agregat blog?
Saya rasa salah satu kuncinya ada di fokus. Aggregator blog yang bisa menjaga fokus topiknya dengan baik akan bertahan.
Kunci satu lagi ada pada kendali pengguna (user control). Sekarang ini aggregator berbasis planet tidak memberikan user control apa pun, bahkan preferensi pun tidak, karena semuanya toh di-generate menjadi halaman web statis.
Contoh ekstrem dari user control ini adalah aggregator personal, seperti Bloglines (bloglines.com). Penggunanya bebas menentukan blog mana saja yang mau diagregasi dan bisa diorganisasi sesuai dengan preferensi mereka.
Tentu saja yang saya maksud dengan “user” di “user control” dalam konteks ini adalah pengunjung situs, bukan admin aggregatornya.
Selain artikel di atas, ada satu lagi artikel mengenai aggregator secara umum.
Terima kasih, Budi dan Pujiono dari Koran Tempo.
Update 14/03: Kedua artikel di atas diposting ulang secara lengkap oleh Budi Putra di blognya.
Update 17/03: Enda menulis artikel yang berhubungan di Global Voices Online.
Well, since it’s a new year, a new distro, might as well throw in something new. I’m adding a new plugin to my blog, Akismet. It’s included in WP 2.0, but I don’t need to upgrade yet. So, bring it on, spammers, let’s see what you’ve got.
I’m working on a school project this semester. The first half of the project is mostly literature review to get some background about the project topic, identify any open issues and try to propose a solution or research to be implemented on the second half of the project. The project topic is, tentatively, Context-Aware Mobile Applications. I will have implemented a working prototype by the end of this semester (around end of November).
The subject coordinator (not my project supervisor) mentioned that one of her students uses blog as a research aid. The student posts his annotations for the literatures as he reviews them. Towards the end he will then use these annotations to summarize, analyze and write a nice report. This seems like an excellent idea. The notes become available from anywhere with internet access, and it is shared with people so they can give comments and/or have discussion about it. An example of such blog is iclouds (choose “Literatures Reviewed” category).
I will probably do the same for my project, for literature reviews as well as progress on the project itself. I’m hoping to post as much as I can about the project as soon as I have the permission from my supervisor. I can only say that I will most likely be developing a mobile application that runs on mobile devices like a PDA, it will most likely be using the .NET Compact Framework since most powerful PDAs or smart phones nowadays use Windows Mobile as the OS, and from what I heard .NET CF is actually not that bad even though it’s from Microsoft. So I’ll definitely be doing something different this time.
Update: Found another blog that is used to record progress for research, coincidentally the topic is very similar to what I’m interested in.
It’s a monopoly board spin-off with a blogging theme to it. Blogpoly, anyone?
(Link via BoingBoing)
Here are some graphs of Planet Terasi stats. The trend shows that Planet Terasi is getting more hits every month. Note that these graphs are taken today which is only the first week of May, but the bars for May are already almost half of April’s.
By the way, I’m planning to do a facelift for Planet Terasi, hopefully in the near future. No promises and nothing fancy, I just want to make it look nicer to read for people who don’t use RSS aggregators to read Planet Terasi.
I’m also interested in suggestions for other aggregator software like Planet (which is used by Planet Terasi) that supports:
- Blog aggregating (duh!),
- RSS (ideally all versions, but version 1 and 2 at least must be supported),
- Atom (mostly for blogger.com users that don’t have RSS feedburner feeds),
- flexible templates or templating system (ideally),
- can provide blogrolls in either OPML or FOAF or both (ideally),
- can sort entries by timestamp within a date instead of by the order specified in the config file,
- (minor) can make sticky post only to the aggregate blog (e.g. in planet terasi only) (this can be done manually with a flexible templating system, of course).
Planet can fulfill almost all of the above quite nicely (with some minor quirks), I don’t mind if I keep using Planet for Planet Terasi, but I’m just curious if there are better approaches. I’ve tried Drupal to do this, it’s still not very good at this moment, although it works perfectly well for other projects. Suggestions are welcome!
Update: Well, that near future is really near, apparently. I have updated Planet Terasi‘s theme, and I think it looks much better and more usable now than before.
Update: I’ve upgraded Planet Terasi to use the latest version of Planet from Scott’s GNU Arch repository. The empty Atom posts bug is gone now, so feedburner RSS is no longer required. The sort ordering works as I requested above in the new version. And other minor fixes. I can probably stop looking for other aggregating solution now. I can probably hack the script for sticky post that appears in the page and in the feeds as well. Python is really cool.
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