Planet material

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Dimitris Glezos wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:35:35 +0200,
>>>>  Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm also a supporter for planets that aren't only technical but have a
>>>>> more personal atmosphere. We could write down some advices (if you
>>>>> blog too much about non-Fedora bits, consider narrowing your planet
>>>>> feed, same if you're a non-english speaker, etc).
>>>>
>>>> This seems odd. I would think more non-English posts would be a good
>>>> thing.
>>>> Especially if people have a way to filter blog entries based on language.
>>>
>>> Right on both points. Would be great if there was a way to select your
>>> languages and only see those posts every time you visit planet.fpo.
>>>
>>
>> If you want per-language planet we can do that but it is going to have to be
>> self-selected. I do not believe any of the aggregators currently can detect
>> what language a blog post is written in. Especially when many of ours are
>> written in 2 at the same time.
>
> Tagging can work for this, but it's not an ideal solution since few
> will actually do it.
>
> Kinda magicical language detection from Google's API:
>
> http://code.google.com/intl/el/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Detect
> http://code.google.com/intl/el/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/detection.html

interesting. I wonder how I would go about integrating that into the feed 
reader. I'll think a bit.

-sv