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This site was created primarily as a replacement for my previous blog, which I failed to update on a regular basis. This new site is a feed aggregator, enabling me to display most all of my published web content all in this one place.

It started as just a simple idea of a microblog and tool for updating facebook, but I did not want to use something that could not be categorized like ping.fm. As ideas for categories and views came about, I decided to turn it into a site.

Content Management

ManicMelon.com grabs feeds from around the web and stores them in a database, categorized based upon the feed url. Posts are then displayed on the site, and most posts are tweeted to the Manic Melon twitter page.

RSS Feeds

Incoming feed sources include:

Syndication

This site does not currently offer its own RSS feed, but nearly all content on this site can be pulled from the Manic Melon Twitter account Here's a direct link to that feed.

Internet Marketing

I have very few goals for this site from a traffic or profit basis. We worked on it as a fun project here at Net Profit Services. A few goals I have for this site include:

  1. Included in a few design galleries
  2. Ranked on first page of google and yahoo for "Kevin Barber"
  3. Allows potential clients to get a sense of who Kevin Barber is and what he's about

So, a page rank of 7 or thousands of daily visits isn't really the goal.

Behind this App

This site is powered by an application written by Net Profit Services, Inc. The codebase is private at this time. It's possible that a version of this app wil be available at publicly some point, but not soon.

Coding

This site was created in its entirety on Apple computers, and is served by PHP, running on Apache, FreeBSD, and MySQL. The site has a MVC structure and is coded in valid XHTML and CSS.

Hosting

This site is hosted by Net Profit Services, Inc.