non-soc related blog posts
It might be wise to encourage users to syndicate only the SOC relevent portion of their blogs (using tags, or categories, or whatever other method of content organization their blogging tool uses).
I’ve linked to only posts that I’ve tagged with SOC, so the list isn’t spammed with the other stuff going on in my life, and figure others might also wish to do that.
Edit: Actuall, it looks like I screwed up with that. lovely. Working on fixing it…
Yeah, I agree...
I’ve been trying to retroactively clean up feeds that aren’t doing this, but I’ll put some instructions on the form for good measure.
Filtering WordPress Feeds
Instructions for filtering wordpress can be found here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds
In particular, the bit that says:
You can also provide feeds to only specific categories on your site by adding the following to the end of the link:
http://example.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=42
http://example.com/category/categoryname/feed
this technique also works just fine for tags, so if you’d rather tag your gsoc posts use it like this:
http://example.com/wp-rss2.php?tag=gsoc08
http://example.com/tag/gsoc08/feed
Unstructions for Blogger can
Unstructions for Blogger can be found here
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=53336&topic=12455