Robert Heffernan wrote:
> I think it's worth pointing out that blogs.linux.ie, while off the
> beaten track of the main website, is a relatively vibrant part of
> linux.ie. I suppose many of the blogs are not strictly linux related
> (mine is not at all, for instance) but some of them are. IMHO a good
> move might be to set up something similar to planetilug.linux.ie but
> with the stipulation that blogs registered with this particular
> aggregator be (majoritywise) linux and/or techie in nature. These
> feeds could then be given some front-page presence.
>> It would lend a sense of community to the affair anyway.
>
While I would support giving more prominence to the "planet" your
stipulation with regard to the content of the blogs is far too
restrictive. If you have a glance over some of the more prominent OSS
"planets" you'll see that while there maybe a higher concentration of
"tech" posts there is also a healthy level of non-tech content.
A random sampling of the following would illustrate this:
http://planet.debian.net/http://www.planetapache.org/http://planet.perl.org/
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