[openFIRST-devel] FIRST Blogs

[Tim G. <ti...@op...>]

Hello,

It's about time that I posted something about the latest project I've 
been working on for a little over a week now.  The site is called FIRST 
Blogs.  The address is http://blog.openfirst.org/ .  The short term 
goal is merely to aggregate blogs from people currently or previously 
affiliated with FIRST.  The blogs are all from people involved in FIRST 
  (be that as a current/former student, mentor, sponsor, or whatever 
else) and are included regardless of where they're hosted (Live 
Journal, personal sites, My Space, Xanga, and others) in one place.

Currently the site produces an RSS feed of all of the blogs combined in 
addition to the HTML version shown on the main page.  Recently there 
has also been the addition of a form to recommend a blog to be shown on 
the site (in addition to the method of just e-mailing me with the 
details).

Possible future directions for the site include the direct provision of 
blogging space for users and the creation of a more topic-oriented 
list.  These possibilities will be re-evaluated later, but at this 
point the goal is mainly to get as many people blogging to the site, 
and reading the site as possible.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Dave for creating the FIRST Blogs Logo and helping me work 
through the site design
Thanks to Bharat for creating the openFIRST Powered Logo

Cheers,

Tim

P.S.  If you've got a blog and aren't already there, feel free to give 
me the info and I'll add you to the site.