Over on the Progressive Blog Alliance they’ve run into some problems with blog rolling. They’re blog roll is now over 150 people and they are trying to figure out a better way to handle the blog roll.

One idea is to use the RSS feed from del.icio.us. I had set up a tag for PBA there. I haven’t updated it in a while, but it is a tool that could be used. Unfortunately, currently, the most items you can see in a Drupal block of a feed is 25 items, so this doesn’t really help a lot.

So, I started writing a modification to the aggregator module for Drupal so that you can use Drupal as a blog roller. The aggregator module isn’t really the right place to do it, but it did give me a good first pass.

I then found that Grantbow had been working on a Blog Rolling module for Drupal. I took my aggregator changes and found that they work quite nicely in Grantbow’s module. So, over at the SmartCampaigns Test site, I have the upgraded blog roller running. I’ve used this Drupal based blog roll over on my Blogger site.

Ideally, I would love to see the ability to use tags in blog rolls, similar to what del.icio.us uses, as well as some sort of Karma system. Currently, the blog-rolling module does have a little bit of Karma. If you access all of the blog rolls on a drupal site, it sorts the entries first by the number of people that have blog rolled the site.

Anyone else interested in blog rolling with Drupal?