I just had a great Skype chat/LiveMeeting demo with George Athannassov of Blogtronix. He walked me through the cool new features that he spent all last week hinting about.
The new Blogtronix does some very interesting things with custom RSS, both for the blogger and the reader.
Most blogging platforms worth their salt already allow you to subscribe to comments for a specific post or the writings of one specific author, but Blogtronix goes a step further. In the new version, readers can also subscribe to all the comments written by just one person. They can also generate a custom RSS feed that syndicates only a specific category or a specific keyword.
On the blogger end, the new Blogtronix does some pretty cool things with RSS and reposting. You can subscribe to any blog you want, filter for categories and keywords, and then either either automatically re-post them, or queue them up for your approval.
Also, Blogtronix makes it easy to credit back to the original source. You can automatically set up some text to run on each post imported from a particular source with the name of the author and a template tag that gets the permalink of the original post. This text attaches itself to each post from a particular source, just like your sig file does on your e-mail.
Obviously, this feature has the potential for abuse. But used properly, it could also provide some truly amazing regurgitorial. I would love to have a feature like that for this blog so that I could easily import and quote whoever was saying the most interesting stuff instead of bopping back and forth between my RSS reader and my blog editor.
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