September
2006
Planet formation
I’m in the process of setting up my own planet!! This is a fantastic way of bringing together people who blog about a particular subject, like skin cancer.
Last night while meeting up with the guys I used to live with at Univeristy, Jono mentioned that he had seen some of the awareness stuff I had been doing on the moleaware site and gave me a run through something called a planet. A planet is a series of web scripts which trawll through a list of peoples blogs and brings a copy of their recent blog entries into the planet. Usually blogs have an invisible file, usually called an RSS feed, which you can hook into to be notified of new blog posts, a planet uses these feeds to populate the planets homepage.
I know there are many bloggers out there actively talking about their experiences with Melanoma, and possibily using those personal publishing spaces to raise awareness. Trouble is unless you are searching for a blogger who writes about melanoma, chances are you won’t stumble across what they have to say. As soon as Jono showed me a planet I suddenly saw that this would be a benefit to spreading the word about melanoma and early detection.
Many melanoma bloggers, either have no comments or in some cases you might find a melanoma blog with the first words reading “unfortunatly this person passed away this year” and that’s sad because that person had something to contribute, but maybe didn’t get the exposure to an audience. So I’m on the look out for blogs and in particular I would like to add to the planet people who really want to push this up the agenda, because there are so many myths about skin cancer and so many people with personal expereinces about it to bust the myths that we could really make a difference.
Maybe, just maybe some planet inhabitants might get the chance to publish at moleaware.org.
