Partially in response to the CBC’s lockout of CMG members, I’ve started Planet CBC, a conglomeration of as many CBC weblog feeds as I’ve been able to find (mostly from Tod Maffin’s great CBCunplugged.com). Note that, like Tod’s list, it includes the weblogs of both management and locked-out employees. Note also that I specifically didn’t name it Planet CBC Lockout; it’s my hope that at least some of the bloggers will continue after the current situation is resolved.
For those who care, Planet CBC is generated using a locally-modified version of Planet. My changes were mainly to use a more recent version of the Universal Feed Parser, although I’ve also made a few other improvements.
Shortly after I posted this I switched from Planet to FeedWordPress, which I felt was a little more capable at the time. About a month ago (that is, in September 2006) I switched the site back to a branch of Planet called Venus. I’ve added several filters to the stock Venus distribution, one dealing with an odd interaction between MySpace RSS feeds, Venus and MagpieRSS, one that adds “Untitled” as the title for items that don’t have one, and one that fixes a feed which, for some reason, adds the text “Testing here…” at the end of every post.
In case you wanted to know. 🙂