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Following in the footsteps of many others, I’m now aggregating activity from a number of websites I use into one chronologically ordered stream as you see here. Such systems are colloquially referred to as lifestreams.
Rather than use a hosted lifestream service such as friendfeed or socialthing, I decided I wanted more control over design and functionality so I’ve written an application in Ruby on Rails to talk to sites such as:
If you’re only interested in blog posts, there’s a blog only RSS feed, but I’ve taken care to ensure that there’ll be very little noise on here - only items I truly deem worthy of exposure to my faithful followers will make it onto this stream.
I might blog another time about certain design decisions involved in building this, and I also plan on releasing snippets of Ruby code that may be helpful to others.
Finally, I thank the remarkable work of Yongfook whose own lifestream was a big inspiration when working on this. His PHP based implementation will soon be available for self-hosted use and further idea-borrowing (ho ho), as Sweetcron.
