That’s a nice example. People normally think of portals as being big things with high traffic, but I reckon long tail portals have a role too. Getting the right content to a small group of people in the way they want to receive it could do a lot for building community and strengthening groups and interests.

Thanks for kind words, which almost made up for the fact that when I got in this morning I found the bottom half of the sidebar borked

We don’t release any code, but this is because we don’t really develop any. I don’t have anything like the skills to, and when we hire contractors to tailor stuff for us, it’s generally so specific that if we took out our context it would have so many holes it would be of no use to anyone (considered doing it with a petition tool we did for wordpress, but decided it would have been twice the work to get it into a shape anyone else might have use for). This site runs purely off 3rd party services and Codex-listed plugins (Feedwordpress & Subscribe2 mainly).

Like BIS Tweets especially. I started a twibe for union tweets as my half hour fiddling with an aggregator couldn’t get past the Twitter API login and I gave up.

It’s still in beta and more features will be coming.

Though much simpler and working purely off the RSS feed itself, I’ve been playing with a similar kind of aggregation of business-related blogs (very early days, I should say) at http://dev.bis.gov.uk/businessblogs/ (based on http://www.publicsectorblogs.org). I also knocked together a little something which aggregates tweets from key stakeholders over at: http://dev.bis.gov.uk/twitlab/bistweets

What’s your policy on sharing the kind of code you’ve developed there? Does the TUC open source its stuff at all?