This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Thanks for putting this together. Adding the feed to my blog right now!

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 29 April 2006 @ 1pm

sweet

Posted by Mark. T. Blair on 29 April 2006 @ 2pm

New Virginia Blog aggregator…

Waldo Jaquith has done a lot of work and compiled an aggregator for Virginia’s political blogs (he’s even got ME in there!!!) Go on over, check it out, bookmark it… And if you’re not on it, let Waldo know! What…

Posted by CatHouse Chat on 29 April 2006 @ 2pm

I should mention that my having forgotten a blog doesn’t indicate anything one way or the other. My head is spinning both literally (I haven’t kicked this illness yet; its defining symptom for the past two days has been an overwhelming dizziness) and figuratively, with all of the blogs I pawed through last night in compiling this list. Frankly, I’m surprised I remembered to include my own blog.

D’oh. I just realized I forgot one of my blogs. See?

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 29 April 2006 @ 3pm

Waldo – any hope of getting the aggregator to update more than once every 3 hours? Or would that eat up too much bandwidth?

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 29 April 2006 @ 3pm

Damn you Waldo. I had just whittled down my blog reading to less time than I spend sleeping each day.

A pox upon you! Oh wait, you’ve probably already had that in the last week or so … hmm, what’s a nasty blogosphere curse … ah!

May your links return 404s, may your comments dry up like a desert, and may your server become a Republican!

Posted by Adam Sharp on 29 April 2006 @ 4pm

any hope of getting the aggregator to update more than once every 3 hours? Or would that eat up too much bandwidth?

I may well increase the update frequency, but the problem is just as you describe. I have the bandwidth for it, but not every blogger will appreciate having their site polled too often. Blogger, in particular, will ban aggregators that poll too often. I worry that polling 48 Blogspot sites every hour might be enough to warrant banishment. OTOH, there’s only one way to find out… :)

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 29 April 2006 @ 4pm

Waldo… You did this while you were ILL????

Yeah, yeah, I understand that for a web-wizard it’s not a terribly HUGE set-up problem, but *dang!* LOL When *I’m* sick, everybody better bring me offerings in a servile and obsequious manner – God forbid I should do something for others…. ;-) *snicker*

Thanks again, and I hope and pray you’re feeling completely healthy very soon!

– R’cat
CatHouseChat.com

Posted by Romeocat on 29 April 2006 @ 4pm

I may well increase the update frequency, but the problem is just as you describe. I have the bandwidth for it, but not every blogger will appreciate having their site polled too often. Blogger, in particular, will ban aggregators that poll too often. I worry that polling 48 Blogspot sites every hour might be enough to warrant banishment. OTOH, there’s only one way to find out… :)

Go for it! But then again – I don’t want you to get banned :(

Doesn’t Lefty Blogs poll every 20 minutes or something?

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 29 April 2006 @ 5pm

Il miggliore fabro.

Posted by J.C. Wilmore on 29 April 2006 @ 5pm

Go for it! But then again – I don’t want you to get banned

On your request, I’ve set it to poll every two hours until I can find out a) how well the caching works on this aggregator and b) what sort of frequency that Blogger will tolerate.

Il miggliore fabro.

Gratsi, Mr. Eliot. :)

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 29 April 2006 @ 5pm

I’m now in my refractory period…whew!

Posted by Kevin on 29 April 2006 @ 6pm

I don’t know. Does mine count?

I mean, after all, politics, poetry and beer are a natural combination.

Posted by Dan on 29 April 2006 @ 6pm

Sure, Dan—I’ve added it, and it’ll start appearing as of the next update.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 29 April 2006 @ 7pm

Thanks Waldo. Now just one more question: can you take a look at the feed for SW Virginia law blog? I’m not getting the title of the posts there in the feed, just the name of the blog. Thanks!

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 29 April 2006 @ 11pm

Everything appears fine with Steve’s feed (I’ve subscribed to it for a couple of years now), and it shows up without problem on the aggregator’s web page. I’m afraid that I’m not sure what the source of the problem is, since I can’t duplicate it.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 30 April 2006 @ 2pm

Thanks for looking at it. The RSS widget I’m using may just have some quirks. That’s the only feed that coming thru strange.

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 30 April 2006 @ 3pm