I've put together the following feed aggregators for the benefit of anyone who would like to make use of them. Please remember: the content pulled together here is still governed by the licensing or copyright preferences of the originating bloggers. Always check with the original author before re-using any of this content!
Most frequently given answer: Please do not ask me to "post" notices about your individual posts to these aggregators. Content here is automatically scooped up from the blogs and sites listed on the individual subscription lists if their feeds are formatted in a standard way and are readily accessible on the web. If you think that your blog or website should be included in a particular aggregator, but it does not appear in the associated subscription list, please contact me with a request for its addition. Note that I reserve the right to say a respectful "no."
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Maia Atlantis: Ancient World
Bloggers
- This aggregator brings together content from the blogs of the members of the Ancient World Bloggers Group and the eClassics Community, as well as other blogs touching on ancient studies.
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Electra Atlantis: Digital
Approaches to Antiquity
- This aggregator brings together content from "ancient world" blogs that also focus on, or frequently address, issues of digital scholarship and teaching, as well as content from blogs devoted to the new (digital) humanities, digital scholarly publishing and open content/data.
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EpiDoc: News and Views
- This aggregator brings together blog posts about the EpiDoc customization of the Text Encoding Initiative (it does not include the EpiDoc SVN Commits Feed, nor the revision feeds for the EpiDoc Documentation Wiki and the EpiDoc Roadmap Wiki).
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ISAW Resources
- This aggregator provides information about the latest updates to the growing collection of online resources provided by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and its collaborators.
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Pleiades: News and Views
- This aggregator brings together blog posts about the Pleiades Project from the project's participants. It does not include the Pleiades Trac Timeline (with SVN commits).
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New 2013-03-01:
Potamos: Digital Antiquity
Data
- This aggregator brings together feeds that report additions and updates to data content of various projects related to the ancient world. It does not include blog posts of any kind. In some cases Potamos content is included in one of the other aggregators; however, I am considering pulling same so that it only appears in Potamos.
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Merope Atlantis: Ancient
Inscriptions
- This aggregator brings together images and texts of (mostly) Greek and Roman inscriptions from Flickr and various other sources.
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Taygete Atlantis: Excavation
Blogs
- This aggregator brings together blog posts directly related to specific ancient-world, archaeological excavations and surveys.
If you think there are feeds that should be added to one of these aggregators, please email me with your suggestion. Similarly, if you don't want your blog included here, I'll happily remove it on request. I am solely responsible for the subscription lists for these aggregators, and make no guarantees as to what I'll include. My employer has no policy role in this service, which I may choose to terminate at any time.
Many thanks to the Ancient World Bloggers Group for the idea, to Sam Ruby for his Venus branch of Planet, and Sean Gillies for setup help.
Other blog aggregators
- Blogs en Χείρων · Chiron
- This blog aggregator -- part of the collaborative Χείρων · Chiron project -- gathers content from nearly 150 mostly Spanish-language, classics-oriented blogs; almost none of these are represented in Maia or Electra. Subscribe: Blogs en Χείρων · Chiron (Atom Feed).
- Updated 11 Feb 2008: I hope eventually to combine this feed into the Maia aggregator, but right now it's exhibiting encoding problems (characters above base ASCII are getting borked). This is strange, given it displays fine in Firefox (but not in the venus output, nor in my RSSOwl client). I'll have to set aside some time to try to figure out what's going awry.
Feed reading, bots, and user agents
As implied above, Planet Atlantides uses Sam Ruby's "Venus" branch of the Planet "river of news" feed reader. That code is written in the Python language and uses an earlier version of the Universal Feed Reader library for fetching web feeds (RSS and Atom formats). Out of the box, its http requests use the feed parser's default user agent string, so your server logs will only have recorded "UniversalFeedParser/4.2-pre-274-svn +http://feedparser.org/" when our copy of the software pulled your feed in the past.
Effective 27 February 2014, the Planet Atlantides production version of the code now identifies itself with the following user agent string: "PlanetAtlantidesFeedBot/0.2 +http://planet.atlantides.org/". Production code runs on a machine with the IP address 66.35.62.81, and never runs more than once per hour. Apart for a one-time set of test episodes on 27 February 2014 itself, log entries recording our user agent string and a different IP address represent spoofing by a potential bad actor other than me and my automagical bot. You should nuke them from orbit; it's the only way to be sure. Note that from time-to-time, I may run test code from other IP addresses, but I will in future use the user agent string beginning with "PlanetAtlantidesTestBot" for such runs. You can expect them to be infrequent and irregular.
Please email me if you have any questions about Planet Atlantides, its bot, or these user agent strings. In particular, if you put something like "PlanetAtlantidesBot is messing up my site" in your subject line, I'll look at it and respond as quickly as I can.