See also: Feed Reading via People: Face to Face with Ton Ziljstra, Part 1
I wanted to share with Ton some of the information that came up during DrupalCon.
Ton uses Qumana to easily cross-post to multiple locations. I'm unhappy with this as a solution, as context is actually lost. That is, there should be one canonical/permanent/referenceable URI for each blog post...or at least a GUID. Atom does this well, we need it to be better automated. To be fair, Ton does customize and/or intro each duplicated cross post, adding local context. Ideally, there is a field in the feed specs that could be used for this purpose without changing the GUID -- I may want to see his local context hints, but I don't want to see the same article three times from him. I know I feel the same pressure/need -- these collection of posts should be at Bryght as well as B. Mann Consulting because we haven't yet enabled automatic aggregation of targetted posts.
Corporate use of aggregated/group blogs may be pointing towards more of a focus on feed reading via person. Or are also trying to solve the cross-posting issue mentioned above.
I only know of these corporate examples because they use Drupal. Pointers to other examples appreciated...ideally NOT using the Planet Planet code, but something integrated directly into the corporate site.
We were discussing upcoming conference schedules for the next 6 - 8 months. Ton knows a fellow Drupal compatriot, Gunnar Langemark, because of his attendance at REBOOT. It sounds like a conference I should make time for (and I've been meaning to). But conferences planning now needs to take place *globally* -- the LIFT conference wanting to know the Northern Voice schedule indicates as well that we digital nomads are not geographically restricted. But we are still restricted by space and time to only be in one place at a time :P