Well… it had to happen. After a week of people signing up twitter feeds and feedburner feeds from groovyblogs itself, I took some good advice from James, and implemented feed moderation. When you sign up your feed to groovyblogs, you now get a message saying
Behind the scenes groovyblogs will now send me an email with your feed url and an opportunity to approve/deny your feed signup with a single click (so it’s pretty low impact for me, given that we only get a couple of signups a week):
Next on the list is to work out how we can filter out the numerous duplicates we get from downstream aggregators. I could do some sort of title-based algo, but it might result in false positives - filtering out the original author’s post and leaving the aggregator’s copy. Or worse, skipping original unrelated posts with the same title.
Or perhaps I could do content matching. If the first para of this post appears in any other recent post, just keep the oldest one? Sounds more expensive… but may be doable…
If people have any good ideas here, let me know.