BarCamp 2010: Automatic Content

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1. Automatic Content because who has the time?
2. whois • Nicholas Garofalo • web developer and designer • based in Batavia • helusionary.com
3. How the big dogs play • large blog sites have a collective of authors • authors are paid professionals • content is high quality and fresh
4. How the yappy dogs play • lots of users • lots of crappy content • worth comes from the collective whole • content is instant
5. How the lazy dogs play • everything is automatic • lots of traffic • content is simply the stuff from other sites
6. What I wanted • quality content • minimal work • tons of traffic
7. I digress • lifestreams! (lifestream.helusionary.com) • quality content on a particular topic (you) • minimal work: just do what you already do • all the normal traffic you receive directed at a single site
8. a common link How can we apply lifestream principles to other content? Easy! We just need...
9. RTFM • Custom elements can be added to any RSS 2.0 feed • Most feed readers ignore these elements • Most feed readers suck
10. Packages tattlerapp.com opensourceopenminds.com/openpublish managingnews.com openatrium.com