[quote=āBad Lieutenant, post:19, topic:2317ā]Iāve written over a hundred spaghetti western reviews over at filmrecensies.net, formerly known as filmboob.nl
However itās not a blog, but a regular website. Can this be added technically? All sorts of movies are reviewed, but of course the western has its own category, which consists 95% of spaghetti westerns: Filmrecensies en filmbespreking
Iād like them to be added, if possible :)[/quote]
unless it has an RSS or Atom feed, Iām afraid thatās not possible. But send me links to a few recent ones and I can at least mention them in the digest
[quote=āBad Lieutenant, post:22, topic:2317ā]I shall ask the techno nerd of the site if he can implement it.
Anyway, hereĀ“s the five most recent ones:
Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola
CosƬ sia
Tutto per tutto
La tigre venuta dal fiume Kwai
Mille dollari sul nero
Actually Iāve been reading some of those with help of google translator. Youāve been talking about some obscure flicks which is very cool. Iām now very curious about the cheap āLa tigre Venuta dal fiume Kwaiā.
Very cool! I know I am slow at ādiscoveringā this project; but, I have been a bit busy (what with my moving and all around the time it kicked off).
Great work!
thatās why you can comfortly put the planet into your RSS reader and read the stuff whenever you have the time, no need to even go to planet.spaghetti-western.net anymore
In case you havenāt noticed, I have begun to redesign the planet. I wanted to make it more accessible, more pleasing to the eye, and more looking like a newspaper/magazine that is fun to browse. It includes not only latest blogs, but also some stuff from the twitter feed, our Almeria photo album, and more.
I still have to fix a lot of small things, and find a balance between automatically syndicated blogs, and content I put up mysellf. I don want to post more reviews, as it is super easy to subscribe to the planet via RSS, but the SWDB itself is not very nice to subscribe to.
I am also looking for feedback, so please let me know what you think. And I am looking for authors. Whoever wants to blog (about anything) about SWs, and doesnt have his/her own blog, youāre more than welcome.
Those that do, and that I have syndicated, I will probably be emailing you soonā¦
it was very hard to find a decent layout that would accomodate the best of both worlds.
Hereās what I didnāt like about the previous layout: things got buried pretty quickly, and the whole layout looked like a cheap Twitter clone. Also, in the long run I want to have more of a magazine feel to it, mixed with non-syndicated content, and the chance for people to discuss in the commenting section of the blog entries, and a way to announce really cool reviews or content of the SWDB. So I was looking for a way to put as much diverse content into one spot as possible, and I am now closer to it.
This is by no means the last word, it is still an experiment of sorts.
Another problem is technical: It is not easy to syndicate these external sources, which often have sloppy html code, and include them properly into one website, picture thumbnails etc. For example, I could define to catch the first 50 words of an external blog post, but if that blog post starts with a cast list or someothing, it will take up half a page, even though in the end itās just a few wordsā¦ things like that are hard to controlā¦
I would love to hear more feedback though. To me, the ideal way would be to have a two-column layout, syndicated blogs to the left, and SWDB-proper content on the other, and some twitter and picture stuff in between or something.
However, we neither have the manpower/skill nor the money to do something on our own, so I am stuck with finding a pre-existing layout/template/look and adapting it a bit to our needs, all that in the evening hoursā¦
We are ceasing the @planetspaghetti twitter account and the facebook page. both will now be fed into the @swdatabase and SWDB facebook page. everything else stays the same
Hi, this may be a dumb questionā¦ As you said earlier itās super-easy to subscribe to the RSS feed of Planet SW. However, there seems to be much less happening than in the chronological list displayed on the main page, for new articles, reviews and such. On the main page I can only find a RSS feed for all changes to the database which is not what Iām looking for. Is there a way to get all the stuff listed on main page into my RSS reader? Thanks!
there is currently no RSS feed for what u see on the āmain pageā on the SWDB, for technical reasons. This is a hand-made list of new additions. The Planet is a separate blog, its RSS feed only brings you articles from there.
Ideally, we would offer one feed to suscribe to that unifies both, but for that I currently lack the resources to implement it. The closest to that currently is following our Facebook pageā¦
