I’ve been approached by our librarian to set up a Web log that allows students to post reviews of books they have read. Easy enough, as long as I think through the access/permissions issue carefully enough. What that leads me to think about is that Multi-Author Weblog Tool that allows for several Web logs to be fed to one. Sounds like that would be an easy way for a teacher and a class to view/aggregate all individual content in one place. But here’s the question…is that a Radio only app or can that be tweaked for Manila?
I’m kind of resisting this next round of research…Joe and Pam are off into MoveableType. Maybe I’ll just wait and see what they say. But it looks like some playing with Radio is going to have to take place. So I downloaded the trial, but I can’t get past the It Worked! page. Anyone want to hold my hand???
Update…I got past the It Worked! page. Going to build the aggregator first. Made a post, but now for the really stupid question, where can I see what it looks like? Ugh…starting from scratch is such fun!
Will, Hit where you see the Cloud links home on your browser page on the actual post page (along the right side). That’s where you can view what it looks like to others….you can do it on the actual page itself or on the desktop radio toolbar under Radio, scroll to Cloud pages then scroll to home page.
Pam
Hey Will,
Your question is being raised on the Frontier Users list right now. It sounds like there is code to enable the aggregator in Manila, but turning it on requires programming “a user interface”. I don’t know of anyone offhand who’s had experience programming such an interface though… if there’s someone out there who has, we’re interested in the code as well!
Sarah