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Following my post about the new blog listener API, Scot has put together an implementation that aggregates content from other feeds. If you've not seen this, take a look because it's pretty smart.

Having used a collection of blogs on my current project, I'm still under the impression that this is a good thing to do (see Project blogs for more information on what I'm currently doing). Aggregating other content just makes this argument even more powerful. You can use a blog as a central resource for collecting and sharing information from many sources, including anything that can generate an RSS/RDF/Atom feed.

• Content from team members - status reports, useful project information, informal guides, reminders, links to documents, project milestones, etc.
• Build status (e.g. published from CruiseControl or Ant).
• Documentation and other deliverables distributed using RSS enclosures.
• Update summaries aggregated from the project wiki or other knowledge management tool.
• Aggregated content from your RSS-compatible issue tracking tool (e.g. JIRA)
• Content aggregated from your client's blog (e.g. technology groups within the organisation).
• Content aggregated from sources outside of the organisation, firewall permitting!

With newsfeeds getting more and more pervasive, there's no telling what you might be able to aggregate next week. If you're already running a web application server like Tomcat, download Pebble and try a project blog for yourself.