Thanks to the lightweight and efficient Taxonomy Browser module it is now possible to use Drupal Digest to create your personalized Drupal news feeds. Just select the different topics from the browser to create the listing. Each listing has its own rss feed and each title links directly to the article on the original site. For example you can create a listing of all posts related to Drupalcon and then add the feed to your favorite aggregator.

Feel free to leave a comment with the feed you created and how you're implementing it (iGoogle, twitterfeed, ...)

DrupalMAO relaunched yesterday with a new Thanksgiving episode. Along with a new theme (that's still in development) they're also adopting a new concept. Instead of skimming the Drupal Planet for interesting posts themselves, Dave and Jerad are now using the Drupal Digest ranking system and talking about the most popular posts. So you can now have a say in what topics will be discussed in the next DrupalMAO by voting on your favorite posts!

By popular demand I added tagging to Drupal Digest. This allows you to create your own rss feeds from all Drupal Planet content about drupalcon or views for instance. To implement this feature I enabled the core taxonomy module and Feed Element Mapper to save the feeds' tags as Drupal terms. Along with the simple voting mechanism this is an easy and useful way to personalize the Planet's aggregated content. These are really low-profile changes that can easily be implemented for the Drupal Planet so I hope they get picked up as part of the drupal.org redesign.

In my effort to make the Drupal Planet more efficient as part of the drupal.org redesign plan I've set up a prototype of a lightweight Digg-like Drupal Planet. I'm glad to present Drupal Digest. The concept consist of two pages. First there is the list of Unfiltered articles, which is basically what you get on the current Drupal Planet: the aggregated content of everyone on the Planet, with the newest articles listed first. So the people who are happy with the current Planet can still enjoy it as-is.