Planet Panther syndicates a variety of websites, including:
Want to get syndicated at pP? If you currently live or work at Archbishop Elder High School, and you have a blog of some sort, let Minh know about it! Just provide your name, your class year (department or position if you’re an adult), and the URL (Web address) of your blog.
Note for those who didn’t get the joke: It’s April Fool’s! This website actually syndicates St. X students, and it will return to being called Planet Xavier tomorrow.
As a bonus, you can even have your own hackergotchi featured next to each of your posts here. A hackergotchi is like an avatar, except it’s an image of your face, typically rendered with a drop shadow to make it look like your head is sitting happily on a tabletop. (Don’t ask Minh how it got there!) And yes, the word is coined after those annoying little e-pets…
Send Minh a photo or really sloppy drawing of your face (crayon on looseleaf, of course), and Minh will include it right here! He’ll probably clip out the background unless you ask him not to. As usual, Minh reserves the right to exclude any hackergotchi he deems inappropriate – though that’s probably not going to be a problem if you send a picture of your face…
In order for Planet to catch new updates on your blog, your blog will have to offer a newsfeed. A newsfeed is an XML document that contains a machine-readable version of your blog. There are two varieties of feeds: RSS and Atom. Various sites, including AtomEnabled.org, can show you what an Atom feed actually contains.
Services like DeadJournal and DeviantArt don’t provide public feeds yet. If your blog doesn’t have a feed, you can still get listed at Planet Panther. Just let me know about your blog. Currently, blogs without feeds are listed here, but they will soon be moved to a much prettier-looking student and teacher directory. Stay tuned.
If you’re sick and tired of having everyone read your blog, you may ask Minh to delist your blog. Keep in mind, though, that once you’ve been listed, many of your peers will have already seen your blog, and may have bookmarked it.
If you’re just wary of people reading your occasional personal thought, stay tuned: Minh is going to update this copy of Planet soon, and when that happens, you’ll be able to insert a little code on any of your entries, thereby excluding that entry from Planet Panther.