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By announcements I mean announcements. Soumya, Jarmo and myself have been using those to publish information about Maemo releases. Now we have maemo.nokia.com, Forum Nokia and our own blogs for that.

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KI6AMD = ham radio call sign. I'm fairly certain I know a thing or two about radios, including SDRs (Software Defined Radios). ZeroJay is absolutely right, I know. We all saw Peter's comment on the subject.
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Request sent. The planet text btw still say "Writers specializing on end user topics are only accepted exceptionally: maemo.org is for developers and power users."

Ok, I didn't know that this has been changed for a year now, I apologize.

I was looking at Dan (Thoughtfix)'s post here (might change as more news come in) entitled "Nokia N900 - Behind the Specs". It's not a long post but it's a good one and yet he gets 4 thumbs down.

I agree.

I propose removing the maemo-announce, maemo-users, and maemo-community mailing lists as well.

Thanks Quim.

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I could and it'll be easy but I'm still testing it out. I find the feed for Twitter searches are not that reliable. It's up one second, and down the next.

I actually would like to add a news and brainstorm feed too.

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http://maemo.org/news is a place useful for users nowadays. Well done! Let's see how things evolve but I would expect user focused news only to grow as soon as N900 sales start and interesting apps pop up.

talk.maemo.org posts still not visible in the home but since it has an item in the top navigation and lots of Google juice it seems that people are finding it without trouble.

So it looks like the only real black spot is Brainstorm. We are discussing about it at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=29688 Please join the discussion there! .

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Glad to do my little part. :D

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Features can be added :)

Originally we aggregated some tag-based information like Flickr pictures and Youtube videos tagged "maemo" to the Social News system, but this was then removed. Similarly we could aggregate "maemo"-tagged blog posts to Planet if we want to, but supporting unfiltered sources raises some potential spam issues.

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You may also want to consider aggregating the #maemo Qaiku channel.

As for reliability, the way we're avoiding that issue with Midgard-powered feed aggregators is that we store all items locally. So feed updates happen in a scheduled fashion on the background, and displayed items come from the local content repository. That way, if a feed source goes down we only skip refreshing it.

A bit unrelated but I've been looking at RSScloud for making feed updates "instant", especially now that wordpress.com supports it.

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Thanks. I agree 100%. In fact that's why I suggested what I did. As the "noise" level increases (new user-targeted blogs) then IMO the need for formal structure becomes paramount. I propose establishing a standard set of tags that automatically direct blogs toward specific (future) structures, and let anything not incorporating any of those tags fall through to a general (ie, "spam") location. Those could then be examined to see if tags need to be increased and/or changed.

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Yes, I do that. I actually use lastRSS to do the caching. It runs similar to Magpie RSS, or SimplePie RSS. It gets refreshed every 10 minutes. I also use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the RSS data from different feeds. It works well so far and it does the job, skipping problematic feeds. If it gives me a problem, I'll host the aggregated feeds locally, maybe via SweetCron.

Thanks.