January 2010

Permaculture news aggregator launched in BETA

Probably easiest to just cut n paste the email...

"Hi folks,

 I have created a BETA of a News Permaculture Cooperative using various high-quality RSS and Atom feeds on the web and a Drupal web-application called Managing News, from Development Seed  the News.PermacultureCooperative.org aggregates RSS/Atom NEWS FEEDS from websites we choose a lot of websites of established permaculture sites and people dont have quality feeds and so I havent included them for the moment.. either there arent regular blog posts being made, the feed itself doesnt work in the website or there are issues with the feed in overall editorial balance on the site.. some blogs seem to have unusually high dominance and are investigating that on development/staging servers  Google Blog Search and Google Search feed delivers many of the blog and website articles for websites that aren't listed  I have focussed on blogs with original content and either a specialist or especially wide scope examplesPermaculture NEWS free cooperativehttp://news.permaculturecooperative.org/  Permaculture Politics bloghttp://news.permaculturecooperative.org/feeds/8 Haiti search views http://news.permaculturecooperative.org/search?search=Haitihttp://news.permaculturecooperative.org/search?search=Haiti&display=views-mode-listhttp://news.permaculturecooperative.org/search?search=Haiti&display=views-mode-map  will be updating the about us page with more info about feed inclusion/exclusion policy, and cooperative arrangements  About us, includes a video tour of Managing News features and a DONATE option http://news.permaculturecooperative.org/node/1  regardsNick, Kirstie, EvanPermaculture Cooperative skype permaculturecoopemail permaculturecoop@gmail.com"