Tried to take the next step with an rss reader but a couple of issues have arisen. First, any of the local readers such as Amphetadesk and Newzfeed won’t work through the firewall we have here at school. Second, while I can get them to work with this site since it’s “inside”, every student site that I tried to set up with a feed came back with an error that said something was wrong in a particular line of text from the page. Strange. It would be a time-saver to have my journalism kids’ Web logs fed to one aggregator. Just don’t know why it’s turning out to be so difficult.
Will,
I have tried to subscribe to one of your student’s feeds in Radio’s aggregator. It’s seems to work just fine!
Have you ever tried to display the feeds on a Manila page? For monitoring purposes this might be enough…
Seb
Your feeds are all inside the firewall? That is, the URL for them can only be read from machines inside the firewall? That would make sense. And you presumably have something (this page?) visible outside the firewall, correct? Or am I missing something?
If that’s the case then you either open up the firewall to allow access to the internally located files OR you set up a proxying mechanism of some kind. The simplest proxy would be little more than having a timed program drag a copy from the internal locations to one accessible from the outside. Crude but effective. It’d also give you some pretty fine grained control over what files made it out.
There’s a lot of variables in this mix. Can you explain a little more? I spent 5 years designing and managing a K12 network so I’m pretty familiar with many of the issues involved.
Seb, I keep getting the same error…but maybe I’m not setting it up correctly.I’m starting at ground level here. What I tried to do was add the rss macro to a few of my students’ sites. Every time I clicked on them, I got an error message that comes back with a line of text from one of their posts. How were you able to subscribe to their feeds?????
Bill, I’m kind of assuming it’s a firewall issue. When I ran amphetadesk at home, it was fine…got feeds from all over. When I run it here, the only feed I can get is from this site, which is hosted on a school server. Every other feed times out when amphetadesk tries to connect. Again, I’m not totally sure what I’m talking about here, just making some guesses. Thanks for the response.