reBlog

Table of Contents

     * Overview 
          + Feed Reader 
          + Blog Plugins 
     * Installation 
     * License 
     * Credits 

Introduction

   The reBlog project is an effort by Eyebeam R&D and Stamen Design to
   make it easy to preview and republish articles, web log posts, and web
   links. The goal is to allow individuals and organizations to filter
   content and republish material that is most useful to their respective
   audiences. The first example of a reBlog achieved with this system can
   be found at http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/

Overview

   The reBlog system consists of two primary components:
    1. reFeed
       A PHP-based server-side RSS aggregator/reader that allows for
       quick, easy, iterative filtering, editing and re-syndicating of
       posts. It's output is an RSS feed that contains numerous metadata
       necessary to re-publish posts with appropriate attribution. This
       system is derived from a project called Feed-on-Feeds by Steve
       Minutillo (http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/).
       relevant files are in ./refeed/
    2. Blog System Plugins.
       A set of plugins to different popular blog softwares enabling them
       to import posts from a ReceSS output feed and republish them with
       appropriate attribution.
       Plugins have been written for:
          + [mt-logo-small.gif] 
            Movable Type 3.x (http://www.movabletype.org)
            relevant files are in ./mt/
          + [wp-logo-small.png] 
            WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org)
            relevant files are in ./wp/
          + Blosxom
            Not quite ready for release just yet.

Installation

   See the INSTALL file in this directory named for instructions.

   If you have a previous beta installation version of reBlog running,
   please see the file UPGRADE in this directory for instructions as to
   how to upgrade to the new system.

Licensing

     * reFeed is distributed under the GPL (see the LICENSE file in this
       directory), though some of its included libraries (in
       ./refeed/library/) are not.
     * Movable Type is not, so we are not distributing it.
     * However, our plugin and templates, written from scratch, are.
     * Thus, the distribution you have downloaded that includes this
       README file is licensed exclusively under the GPL.

   See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html if you don't know what the
   GPL is.

Credits

     * Michael Frumin, Eyebeam 
     * Michal Migurski, Stamen Design 
     * Alex Galloway, NYU/Eyebeam
     * Jonah Peretti, Eyebeam
     * Eyebeam R&D