Something you’re likely to see at Poblish soon: the ability to monitor the health of any blog or feed you look after. You’ll be able to see:

• The last time we got a successful response from your feed.
• The last time we got an error.
• The last time your feed timed-out.

This matters to you because the last thing you want is for a broken feed to stop your readers finding your posts. We’re in a uniquely good position to help you with this – the only question is: what’s the best way to do it?

• What sort of alerts could we set up?
• When/how would you like to be notified?

Let us know in the comments…

The Bloggers4Labour iPhone app is now available (for free) from the App Store, and it’s powered by Poblish.

Essentially it provides a ‘live’, updateable, list of the most recent blog posts from across the UK Labour Party-supporting blogosphere, offering: title, date, blogger, and a preview. Users can click on an item to view the blog post’s full content.

How does it work? Poblish makes a live feed available for each and every actor, blog, feed, or group on the system, and it’s the feed for the UK Labour Party group (currently comprising 788 members) that powers this iPhone app.

In due course an ‘official’ Poblish iPhone app will also be released: this will offer the ability to:

• Match your search string across the entire system, finding the actors, blogs, feeds, groups, terms, and profile entries you’re looking for.
• Let you browse the feed for each one. So, you’ll have a real-time window into what’s being discussed by other political parties, by all UK MPs, or you can simply follow the blog – or blogger – of your choice.
• View the full content of any article, whatever the source.
• And much more – to be confirmed.

In short, it should become the ultimate search – and news-tracking – tool for anyone involved in UK and (eventually) international politics.

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A selection of the most interesting feeds Poblish makes available can be found in the new Feed Galleries section on the Home page.

Pick the one you’re interested in to update the list of articles – or ratings, flags, favourites, etc. – instantly.

You’ll find there are:

• Recent article feeds with different filters: all posts without categories X, Y, or Z; or only posts with those categories.
• Feeds of the most recent ratings, flags, favourites.
• Group-based feeds: e.g. all Labour, Conservative, or Lib Dem bloggers’ posts.
• Content-based feeds: e.g. all articles that refer to Obama, Gordon Brown, or David Cameron.

I’ll be thinking about the best way to integrate these custom feeds into the rest of the site.