Planet Lotus

December 20 2007

Speaking of Lotus community bloggers, Yancy Lent has been quietly building a site that many of us have been trying to come up with for some time...an aggregator of Lotus community blogs.  planetlotus.org, which I found through referrers to this site, is a very impressive approach to watching the community all at once.

Image:Planet Lotus

On this site, author, title, date/time of new community blog postings are displayed sequentially.  Right now, the site is tracking 132 blogs in "Planet Lotus"...but there's a twist.  Weighting and filtering is applied to determine if blog postings relate to Lotus or not...birthday greetings, youtube videos and the like are filtered out.  So, it's just cool, focused, Lotus-relevant content.  Nice work, Yancy!

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [19]

Post a Comment

  1. 1  Mac Guidera http://www.macguidera.net | 12/20/2007 4:34:36 PM

    Great work Yancy! Something we've needed for a while now, much appreciated.

  1. 2  Bob Brodsky  | 12/20/2007 5:17:13 PM

    EXCELLENT!

    @Ed Need to add this site to your LINKS

  1. 3  Bruce Elgort http://ideajam.net | 12/20/2007 6:08:18 PM

    @Ed,

    Maybe Idea Jam too :-)

  1. 4  Ted Hardenburgh http://dominothoughts.com | 12/20/2007 6:14:53 PM

    Also noticed that there's Lotus Report ({ Link } appears to be his as well.

  1. 5  Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 12/20/2007 6:40:21 PM

    Very nice work. Makes me want to pontificate even more! :)

    @3 - How about and Idea Space for Planet Lotus?

    With all of these blogs pointing to each other I think we are not too far from discovering perpetual motion.

  1. 6  Bill Geimer  | 12/20/2007 7:20:02 PM

    Wow. Talk about creative!

  1. 7  Chris Blatnick http://interfacematters.com | 12/20/2007 7:36:42 PM

    Nice work, Yancy! Quite cool. :-)

  1. 8  Gregg Eldred http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf | 12/20/2007 9:27:23 PM

    I found the link after Andy Donaldson blogged about it back in October:

    { Link }

    I hit it nearly every day, it's a very useful site.

  1. 9  Yancy Lent http://www.lotusreport.com | 12/20/2007 10:17:58 PM

    Thanks for all the positive feedback!

    @Greg, he was blogging about lotusreport.com, planetlotus.org slowly grew from a link on that site to something that could stand on it's own.

    The site is still young, many ideas still to apply!

  1. 10  Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com | 12/21/2007 4:28:05 AM

    Nice work! - There's also News for Notes thats been around for a while - { Link } - although I prefer the new Planet Lotus interface as it enables you to see more in one go.

  1. 11  Keith Brooks http://lotustech.blogspot.com | 12/21/2007 10:14:07 AM

    Very cool site. A must view daily for those with way too many feeds.

  1. 12  Kurt Binnie  | 12/21/2007 12:59:54 PM

    Thanks for this!

  1. 13  Litrik De Roy http://www.norio.be/ | 12/22/2007 7:33:16 AM

    It's a little bit unfortunate that the planet does not offer an aggregated feed of all sites. *That* would be really useful!

  1. 14  Joachim Weber http://www.gedys-intraware.de | 12/23/2007 1:29:09 AM

    This ist absolut great

    happy x-mas to alle of you

    Joachim

  1. 15  Joachim Weber http://www.gedys-intraware.de | 12/23/2007 1:34:54 AM

    I am missing full text search, without it is not usable

  1. 16  Bruce Elgort http://ideajam.net | 12/23/2007 12:23:35 PM

    I see that PlanetLotus is written using PHP. It's good to see Lotus developers spreading their wings.

  1. 17  Yancy Lent http://www.lotusreport.com | 12/23/2007 3:37:43 PM

    @Joachim - Search should be up there soon.

    @Bruce - Don't forget the AJAX. Check out your keyword cloud at { Link } Click on Idea Jam and all your related posts will show up underneath.

    The keyword functionality is only as good as the rss feed I have on file. Feel free, anyone, to send me a full post rss feed. It will surly increase the size of your cloud and your individual post score.

    PS: The Blog count is up to 144.

    Happy Holidays,

    Yancy

    planetlotus.org

  1. 18  Peter Schuett  | 12/29/2007 4:21:00 AM

    Very useful work, great idea, also the mobile access part!!!

    As always, there is a little wishlist for improvements though:

    (1) an RSS / ATOM feed to the whole content to be able to subscribe with a feed reader, e.g. the one from Notes 8. This would give everybody the great and convenient opportunity to stay extremely well informed.

    (2) Summary information (if available) by just hovering over a headline ...and also included in the feed (see (1))