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About Planet Lowcountry Bloggers

Well, now that news about Planet Lowcountry Bloggers has been blabbed all over the Internet, I guess it’s time for me to write a bit about it and how to get on it (if your blog isn’t already there).

First of all, Planet Lowcountry Bloggers is powered by Planet, a feed aggregator. The software vists all of the feeds (either RSS 2.0 or Atom) it’s configured with, grabs the newest entries and spits the entries out into a web page. Currently Planet LCB is configured to update every 3 hours.

To get listed in Planet LCB, I need a URL for your blog’s RSS feed. The URL for your blog just won’t do. Has to be an RSS or Atom feed (usually they have an .xml extension). Most blogging software (Typepad, WordPress, MovableType, etc) generate feeds automatically. Most of those blogs in TBB have already been included in the Planet already.

Some blogging services (Blogger/Blogspot for example) include it as one of their premium features that you have to pay for. If your blog falls into this group, FeedBurner is an easy way to get a feed for your blog. Just provide them with the URL to your blog and follow the steps. You’ll get a bit of URL you can place in your blog to advertise your feed, and they even have some neat widgets you can use in web pages and forum signatures to promote your blog.

Ok, so once FeedBurner gives you a feed URL to include in your blog, just email it to me or leave a comment here. I’ll add your feed you will have joined the Planet.

Simple huh.

Planet LCB isn’t the only Planet out there. There are plenty of others and even one other local planet (which looks much nicer than mine and doesn’t seem to have issues with strange text characters popping up all over the place). Hmm, a few more and we could probably form a solar system…

What Planet LCB isn’t going to be is a replacement for the daily round-ups in Lowcountry Blogs. It’s just a convenient location to go catch up on the most recent blog entries from around here and hopefully to make doing round-ups a little easier.

Oh, and don’t let the times and dates published in Planet LCB throw you off. All times are in UTC, so just subtract 5 hours (4 if it’s DST) to get the original blog entry time.

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Charleston Blog Party

Yesterday’s blog party was a lot of fun with a pretty good turnout of interesting people to meet and chat with (and with surprisingly little geek speak!). I think everyone had a good time, so hopefully more of these will be scheduled later.

I got there a few minutes late because of the train

Delayed by the train

The flag at the SC Aquarium was lowered to half-mast, but nobody knew who had died.
Dan Conover, one of the masterminds of the operation was one of the first people I met.

One of the great things about Toucan Reef is the view of the new Cooper River bridge

The new Cooper River Bridge

This is part of the old bridge stuck in the mud

Attendance was pretty good with a much more diverse crowd than I had expected

Joan from Walk This Way even managed to get us some schwag for the party

Mustang Rolling brought his car along

so everyone headed over to pose with it

I didn’t get a group picture, but everyone else did.

Vera from Vera’s Crafty Blog showed off some of her work

Everyone enjoyed the tasty food at Toucan Reef and everyone else’s company

Sunset treated us to a cool view of the bridge and the Yorktown

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Charleston blogger dinner

This sounds ilke it could be fun. A Lowcountry blogger get-together scheduled for 6 PM, May 16 at Toucan Reef. I’ll have to try to see if I can make it.

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Blogging in the Lowcountry

Who knew there would be so many local blogs. Joan over at Walk This Way has a goodly sized collection of them and now there’s lowcountryblogs which aims to collect even more of them. Kind of neat to see what other bloggers in the area have to talk about.