Manufacturers, Steelmakers, Fabricators – Lend Me Your Blogs

Group Huggies(?)

Following on from yesterday’s theme of bringing bloggers of a similar strain together, I’ve created a blogdigger group relating to manufaturing, steel and fabrication blogs. What it’s allowed me to do is aggregate all the posts and show them all in the sidebar under a single rss feed with the aid of blogharbor’s little bit of code to do that kind of thing.

The inspiration was a hybrid of Dennis Howlett’s post about differentiating through news(feeds) and something Robert French did in a similar vein a while back when we were running BLOGthenticity.

I’ve also added the group’s opml url to Dave Winer’s opml aggregator thingy as I dream of a day, when, amongst the high-tech geekery, a bulbous opml feed relating to our little niche begins to show a plethora of posts relating to manufacturing, fabrication and steel. Unless, of course, it doesn’t quite work like that – after all, I’m only a geek wannabe.

It’s an unmoderated group so anybody with a blog related to manufacturing, steel or fabrication can add their rss feed and it’ll automatically show on The Tinbasher’s sidebar – or at least it should.

As it stands, these are the blogs currently in the group:

ACCAbuzz
ShopFloor.org: The Manufaturers’ Blog
Stamping Out A Living
Steel Strip World
steelonthenet blog
The Fabricator Blog
The Tinbasher

Now I know there are others but I struggled finding their RSS feeds. If you have a blog that you’d like to add to the group, just click here and do so (or send me the link and I’ll do it, or mention it in the comments).

You can also email me for the code if you’d like to display it on your own blog.

Also, if you can create a better bit of code that displays the blog name underneath the post that would be quite nifty.

At the end of the day, I’d like to think it’s a way of developing our little niche and then offering that niche to people who might like to read about it.

Any further thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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Lis

Heyyyy I have a blog about tinbanging!!!!!! Can I be a part of your list?!?! (have always wanted to be on a list..... *jumps up and down and slobbers just a bit*)

Welllll maybe it's not about tinbanging in the total sense. I don't actually talk a lot of techno babble, or stick to topic, but it's me and my place in that world...

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Paul Woodhouse

That's a blogdigger thing. I've no idea why it takes so long for certain posts to appear.

This is why I'd like a customised solution from someone.

Steve Sawford

hehe I can cause confusion, I should have mentioned the blogdigger group

Hang on lol.

Are you talking recent posts in the blogdigger group?

And is that why you offered me the RSS feed?

Err what plug in mate

I'll have a tinker with it at some point. Or maybe I won't...who knows?

So did you manage to upload the plugin to the wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate it ok?

And have you checked the plugin author's site for any issues with the version of wp you're running?

Just checking the basics. ;-)

Things are really rather splendid at the moment, thank you.

I'm not too far off getting my interview date for the visa. I'll just take in the world cup then vamoosh....off I pop.

Maybe we should arrange that pint at some point before I go?

No mate my blog is hosted by my IP Plusnet (although I keep it mirrored at blogger) the RSS feed is

Regarding Swicki, I think it is a brilliant idea, badly implemented. I must have spent over 12 hours refining the searches and excluding the crap. It worked well for a while and then lost all the settings. It did not even include my own site in the searches. I think it needs a bit more work. I may go back and try it again if they release a more "stable" version.

Apart from that, hows life treating you?

Am I right in thinking you've moved to a fully hosted version of wp?

Is it wp 2.02 and have you uploaded and activated the plugin separately or has it come with the template, so to speak.

I've never installed the recent posts plugin so I don't know if it requires some php in the sidebar to get it to work.

Send me the link and I'll have a look if you want.

What didn't you like about the swicki? I'm not trying to defend it as I haven't really used it properly. I'm just interested to know.

Well I am impressed by all this technowizardry. I don't understand though why my most recent posts aren't showing. Could it be a setting in wordpress that I have wrong?

Keep up the good work mate, and I have abandoned the swiki which was "pants"