Has anyone figured out how to combine privacy and exclusivity with a passive feed? Many friends and family members have private blogs. They are a huge pain to follow because I can't get feeds for them.<p>I know I'm not the only one who has this problem. Has anyone figured out a solution?
You're looking at a webserver side technology to implement RBAC-style fine grained access control over the feed and use something lie OAuth to authorize users, as many of them as you want.<p>We implemented something like that, but instead of a feed you have medical records. RBAC might be overkill for your purposes, however, unless you want to give your followers specific permissions on what stories in your feed they can view (i.e. you can use tags/keywords to exclude certain viewers; "sex", "boyfriend" or "one night stand" would block your parents and family members from seeing that particular story, etc.)<p>About a day's work if you have done it once.<p>[Correction: this is just for <i>one</i> feed, one you control yourself. For every possible CMS, blog engine or host, you would need the same as well. You would also need to setup a central OAuth authorization service for all the consumers.]