[Web4lib] Software to run an "internal" bloglines-like servic e?

[Bobb Menk]

To aggregate the gist of the responses I had off list to this question:

The only software specifically devoted to this function at the moment, 
appears to be Urchin originally done by the people who publish the 
journal "Nature" and now available at http://urchin.sourceforge.net/

It's written in perl and requires a combination of Apache and MySql. 
It's currently at level .92 so it may come out of beta fairly soon.

I also got some pointers to the aggregator module in Drupal at 
http://drupal.org/node/21963 which is PHP/MySql based.

Other blogging software that look possibly promising are WordPress at 
http://wordpress.org/ and Blog:CMS at http://blogcms.com/

One other product out there is called phpNewsFork at 
http://www.borho.net/news/ - but I haven't been able to quite figure out 
what it really does.

I also had a few pointers to software packages that were more just feed 
readers for the desktop - something that my searches had a tough time 
weeding out as well given how much the descriptive terminology overlaps 
with what I'm thinking about doing....

I've been using the MT-Feeds plugin for MovableType to incorporate RSS 
feeds into my blogs, but am thinking about ways to make the feed links 
more manageable for my bloggers.

Other thoughts, leads, or general ideas remain welcome. Thanks to all 
who replied.

Bobb Menk
bmenk at ll.mit.edu
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library