Linking to News and Blog Sites

The problem was that some stuff ended up in the aggregations section and some "only" on the blogroll. When a site has a nice NewsFeed it even ended up in both sections, that is as a plain link to it and/or as an aggregation. So obviously the distinction of those TopicTypes would be artificial. But "NewsFeed" is a too restricted term for what I wanted in the first place. Therefore I introduced the TopicType "BlogLink" which is a type that gathers link and feed information in one document where the feed info is optional. BlogLinks are gathered on the blogroll where rendered either as a link to the aggregation or to the external site if the BlogLink topic doesn't provide a feed information. If you look at the blogroll now, you can distinguish them by the external-link icon. In BlogAuthor-mode you will get red dots next to the pure BlogLinks to get access to the underlying topic.

So finally, we can add new links to the blogroll with a button in the sidebar and get it inserted correctly into the blogroll list. If you find out that it has got a nice feed - which isn't obvious in some cases - you can upgrade the BlogLink to a full aggregation. Or the opposite way: you can downgrade an aggregation which has a poor feed to a simple link to reduce it to a plain bookmark link.