Been I while since I did anything really geeky in my spare time so this weekend (whilst watching the UKTV repeats of last year’s Doctor Who) I went back to a project that I was thinking about a few months ago.
I’ve built Balham Blogs. It’s a site that aggregates RSS feeds that have some connection with Balham. I was going to use the Planet software, but last week someone mentioned Plagger to me and as it’s a Perl toolkit I used that instead.
Plagger is still under heavy development and the documentation leaves a little to be desired. I had to resort to reading code a few times in order to work out what I needed to do. But in the end it only took a few hours to get the site up and running.
If you run a site that produces an RSS (or Atom, I’m not fussy) feed that has something to do with Balham, then please let me know and I’ll be happy to add it.
Update (Nov 2015): The Balham Blogs project never really took off, so I let the domain lapse. You might be interested in Planet Balham or Balham Twits instead.
The link to Balham blogs is not working, is there a new place. I’m collecting information and other enthusiastic people and trying to develop a blog about Balham.