blog aggregator

Hi guys,

I saw this today and thought of you...

I run the UK blog aggregator TIGMOO.co.uk, which has grown in the last year to syndicate 95 UK union blogs. It's based on Drupal's own news aggregator module, and is ludicrously easy to maintain. People interested in views from around the labour movement now have one URL/feed to go, instead of having to bookmark lots individually. Hopefully we're encouraging more to take it up, building our cadre of 2.0 activists and encouraging a wider debate on different people's insider opinions around unionism.

Seeing the note on Workplace Profs' blog made me think a US union blog aggregator is a quick win you could maybe add to CoD in a US context. It could provide a very useful service to union bloggers (a little traffic, and a few comments that a community could generate is often all it takes to encourage someone to keep blogging and get better at it), expand your contacts with union bloggers themselves, and bring a few more people by the CoD site and postings on a regular basis to get the news feed. You already found a few on your Great Labor Leader blog hunt, plus there are some other great union blogs you already know of, and networking might encourage the rest to apply to you direct, rather than hunting them out.

What do you reckon?

On a similar tip, I thought I might do a duplicate of TIGMOO for all the blogs now which are dealing with union tech issues around the world. Would CoD be up for being included in a combined feed internationally on that?

cheers,
John