Live and direct, Power Line News is a news aggregator and forum mashup geared towards those with an interest in American politics.

The site pulls feed items into the EE db, and creates forum posts on the fly around each topic.

The site can be seen here.

Wow. Great stuff. If only you could have launched a couple weeks/months earlier, huh? I definitely have friends who’ll enjoy that site.

Care to share any techniques/code/principles you use for pulling in the feeds and auto-posting? Not asking you to “give away the farm” but I am interested in how that all works…

Please and thank you.

Sure thing. I’m using a modified version of the FeedGrab plugin to pull the feed items to create the posts and the forum entries.

I’m using soon-to-be-released (I think) plugin called Frate that Mr Wilson developed for this project to allow users to rate forum posts.

Everything else is pretty straight forward. There are a couple of javascripts being used to show the feed item summaries on hover, and for the image map on Word News. Otherwise it’s all just html and css.

I’m happy to answer any specific questions you may have.