[uf-discuss] XOXO/Attention blogroll scraper?

[Danny Ayers]

There's been a flurry of talk surrounding the use of
aggregator-derived subscription lists as as a source of attention
data. Right now most of the aggregators do import/export via OPML.

But there is another source of broadly attention-like subscription
lists, people's blogrolls. As and when the blogging tools start
supporting microformats directly, these should be available as XOXO.

Until such a time, maybe someone has most of the code in place to
create a service that will scrape a blog, use heuristics to recognise
the blogroll and output this tweaked to conform to Attention.xml.

Just a thought ;-)

Cheers,
Danny.

See also:
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/11/26/497205.aspx
http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/11/26/outlining-by-the-fittest

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