First, we took the 'feed on feeds' web-based RSS aggregator and filled it with some of our favorite blogs. Our real goal with reBlog is not filtering news, but engaging Eyebeam’s community. Using del.icio.us and other blogging software, we are already getting feeds from numerous people in Eyebeam's extended community. In the near future, we will include more staff and artists feeds, most of whom don't have blogs right now.
Next we made a simple change to its viewing interface so that rather than marking posts as read/unread you can publish or delete them.
Now, we figured that the easiest way to handle the publishing of our reBlog was to make use of the ubiquitous blogging software, movable type. In order to hook together the modified feed-on-feed and movable type, we used a very dirty SQL hack to simply push entries from one system's database into the other's. So, as you can see, after we 'publish' a post in the feed-on-feeds, it shows up on our list of entries in movable type. There was also the matter of adding a couple fields to movable type's Entry object to handle the meta-info associated with reBlogging, but they make that pretty easy.
The end result, after swiping the style sheet from eyebeam's main site, using another movable type plugin to generate the list of blogs whose content we are sucking down, and inviting people to take turns curating all this content, is the The Eyebeam reBlog. Enjoy!
If you're interested in learning more about how we did this, or contributing some effort to shrink-wrapping this software setup, please don't hesitate to contact us.