Blagg Plugins
December 24, 2005.    

I've been super lazy lately. This article should have been posted a month ago when Markus (website?) made a nice summary of some of the Blagg plugins available out there. For those of you curious, Blagg is to RSS aggregation as Blosxom is to blogging. Not surprisingly both come from the genius of Rael. For simplicity's sake I'm just going to copy Markus' summary from the MailingList.

Unfortunately the original site seems to be down right now, but if you're curious to try it out you can download a local version here. Meanwhile here's what Markus wrote.

I've dug up and posted the blagg plugins in a Files -> blagg files.

There are some other blagg plugins not written by Rael. I'll reference them here.

http://www.speirs.org/blagg/ has a plugin that takes a series of RDF feeds and posts to a LiveJournal account the stories that have appeared in the channels since it was last run.

Another LJ solution can be found at http://popone.innocence.com/archives/2002/10/15/bridgebuilding.php

www.bstpierre.org/Projects/blagg.html has a blagg plugin for placeing incoming posts into a separate directory for each feed.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/2002/05/09.html points to http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/jabberconf.pl for pushing RSS item info to a Jabber conference room

http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/archives/2003/01/29/ has one on posting to Usenet/NetNews (i.e. nntp). Another article on it is at http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/01/30/ooodod

FYI ... I've not used any of these. When I get some free time, after my current pet project, I'll be tinkering with them.

Later, Markus.

Thank you, Markus, for putting together this list! My apologies to you and everyone else for taking so long to post it.

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Ryan Barrett wrote
2006/1/4 01:59:50
blosxom retiring?
hi douglas! i recently noticed that rael himself switched from blosxom to typo a few days ago. what do you think of this? are we seeing the beginning of the end for blosxom? i know kevin released a new version on sourceforge a couple months ago, but the release notes say it's just the version 2.0 that rael released sometime in 2003...?

granted, blosxom was never the most mainstream of blog/wiki packages, but it has always been incredibly elegant. for me, that was always a huge selling point.

i currently use snipsnap, but i've been considering switching to something more usable. blosxom has been at the top of my list for a while. should i now consider others instead?
Douglas Nerad wrote
2006/1/8 11:22:43
Interesting question
My straight answer is no, we aren't seeing the end of Blosxom. Rael has been too busy and hands off for the past two years and yet Blosxom has continued and is still growing. I've written more here. I hope it's clear Blosxom will live on!
Axel Beckert wrote
2006/1/9 23:22:07
Blagg is in the WayBack Machine of Archive.org
See the Blagg website and program archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20041009145156/http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blagg/ and the source code at http://web.archive.org/web/20041010210036/www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blagg/downloads/blagg.