About
Who are you?
Anarchoblogs is a collection of blogs from self-identified anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcha-feminists, anarchists without adjectives, libertarian-socialists, autonomists and other assorted anti-statists. We use free software to syndicate our weblogs, in order to raise awareness, bring together anarchist voices, promote cross-linking and discussion between anarchist bloggers, and to archive and index anarchist materials on the Internet, while we’re at it.
Anarchoblogs began life in September 2004. It was founded by Evan Rabble
Henshaw-Plath, and run with a Planet aggregator at anarchoblogs.protest.net. Technical difficulties caused anarchoblogs.protest.net to disappear from the web in late 2008, so Anarchoblogs contributor Charles Rad Geek
Johnson contacted former contributors about establishing a new Anarchoblogs aggregator at anarchoblogs.org, with new software and some new features (including localized hubs, archiving and indexing of posts by date, tag, and author, and a updated, semantically-richer set of aggregated feeds). The new Anarchoblogs has been live since December 2008.
How do you run this site?
Our site is powered by FeedWordPress, a plugin for WordPress MU, an open-source multi-site blogging platform. FeedWordPress is free software written by Charles Johnson in the PHP scripting language. FeedWordPress processes Atom and RSS feeds using MagpieRSS by Kellan Elliott-McCrea.
Anarchoblogs contributors make an Atom or RSS feed of the posts on their blog available for FeedWordPress to process; the software aggregates the latest entries from all of our contributors’ blogs, enters them into the WordPress database, and republishes the posts as a group blog in the anarchoblogs.org domain.
Individual feeds are aggregated first into a number of different hubs for specific communities — hubs like this site; other hubs may be for communities associated on geographical, linguistic, cultural, ideological, organizational, or other lines. Each of those hubs then produces an aggregated feed, which are in turn collected and aggregated by the global Anarchoblogs website.