Philip Schmidt has developed a way to aggregate both posts and comments inline. Read more about it on Philip’s blog. Jim Groom’s posted about it, too. I have to run to a meeting soon, but I just wanted to show how you can take the Yahoo Pipes output and run it through feed2js to embed The Wire in just about any web page. Nice.
The Wire. Linking aggregated posts and comments
//
Hahahhaah, how cool, that certainly makes a strong case for this approach which is tool independent and can be re-purposed and re-published just about anywhere. I guess this raises the question: WWTHD? Or What Would Tony Hirst Do? That should actually be a whole subculture of edtech folks who are inspired by the MacGyver of data mashups.
Awesome Joss! I did send an email to Tony, but he is probably too busy rewiring the UK governments expense account claims to a google map mash-up of restaurant owners’ voting history to see if labour MPs spent most of their (tax payers’) money on non-labour dining. Or something else trivial.
I just changed my theme (look at this page if you’re reading from a feed!) and I see now that Gravatars get pulled across for comments, too 🙂
Hey Joss: Could you post the content that makes the Wire work like this? I have been playing with feed2js today and all the post titles link back to the feed home page. I am sure it’s something obvious.
Sure, here it is: http://pastebin.com/f5d5f9a4f (it’s also in the source of this page 😉
I see that the gravatars have disappeared from the comments in the feed. Have you been tweaking it?
Thanks! I still see the gravatars (and yours is about twice the size of everyone elses – in fact it covers your name).
I see the gravatars in our comments to this post, but they used to show up in embedded Wire, too. Can you still see them there?
Ah … I never noticed them in The Wire output. Nope, can’t see them there either.