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I am still an avid user of RSS/Atom feeds. I use\nFeedly daily, partly because of their easy to use app. My blog is part of\nPlanet RDF, a blog planet. Blog planets aggregate blogs from many people around a certain topic.\nIt’s like a forum, but open, free, community driven. It’s exactly what the web should be.

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It turned out that planets do still exist, so I started a small corner on Wikidata: Q121134938,\nand a number of existing blog planets:

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The software used to run these planets is ancient, though. We need a new generation of software, replacing things like\nPlanet. And I want something people can easily host on GitHub or GitLab Pages or the likes.

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I created a minimal shape expression but the Wikidata items for the planets still lack a lot of information that can be added. First,\nwe can think of them as venues, perhaps, where people “publish” their work. Second, we can annotate the blog planets with ‘main subject’\nfor the topics the cover. Or we can list the people that are “author” on the planet; most planets are very transparent about which\nblogs they aggregate.

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Love to see where this is going. Who knows? Maybe we will see Postgenomic (see doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-487) and\nChemical blogspace resurface :)

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References

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Willighagen, E. L., O’Boyle, N. M., Gopalakrishnan, H., Jiao, D., Guha, R., Steinbeck, C., & Wild, D. J. (2007). Userscripts for the Life Sciences. BMC Bioinformatics, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-8-487 CrossRef Scholia
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