At the risk of going against some weird weblog etiquette I'm unaware of, I've egotistically volunteered my weblog up to a couple of planet style aggregate sites that syndicate Python related content. This post is partially to test the syndication technology and partially just to say hello to the Python blogging community. And since I just went through the process of getting my content syndicated, I figured I would do a quick write-up of the sites I visited and the basic processes for getting syndicated on each. If you have a weblog and write about Python related stuff, please consider listing yourself on these sites so people can find you.
Planet Python
Planet Python is operated by Ryan Phillips. Shoot him an email (trolocsis at gmail.com) with your weblog’s URL and RSS feed and he should hook you up. I was listed on the blogroll within a couple of hours.
Artima Python Buzz
Artima’s Python Buzz was my next stop. Once you've registered for an account, join the buzz. Again, you will need to know the URL to your RSS Feed and a few other misc items. One thing I like about Artima’s setup is that you have to choose a single community where your content should be syndicated. There are many communities (Linux, XML, Java, and Web also looked good to me) but forcing people to pick the most relevant probably goes a long way in keeping the content on topic.
The other thing about Artima is that they provide comment support. So if you, like me, have yet to implement comment support in your weblog software, this could provide a quick and dirty place for discussion on your posts.
Python Programmer Weblogs
The last site I attempted was Python Programmer Weblogs. There’s a small note on the side stating that the blogroll is scraped from this wiki page. Assumedly, you just edit the wiki page, add your weblog and feed URLs, and the code running the site picks the additions up on the next pass. Unfortunately, one or more of the following things is happening over there because the site seems to be missing 10%-20% of the weblogs listed (including mine):
The scraping code isn’t functionality properly/at all.
The wiki page is hosed somewhere causing the scraping code to choke.
They stopped accepting more feeds.
The site is limited to python-programmers-as-in-I-commit-stuff-to-python-core-type-python-programmers.
MAINTAINER doesn’t like us.
Unfortunately, there is no contact listed anywhere on the site or on the wiki page so I was unable to follow this one up. I considered moving my name to the top of the wiki page to test Scenario 2 but there’s a note that specifically says not to do this, so I didn’t.
Anyway, if you happen to be, or know someone who happens to be the individual that maintains that site, please tell them that it may be borked.
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