About two weeks ago I wrote to the OWASP Leaders mailinglist the following proposal:
Hi everyone,
a working colleague of mine, just pointed me to a project called “Planet”. With something like this it would be possible to catch all the news by OWASP related people, written in their own blogs, even if they don’t use an OWASP blog.See the following website for more information and projects which already use it like Gnome and Debian:
http://www.planetplanet.org/What do you think about using this for the OWASP for having a centralized news channel about webappsec, the OWASP at all and also about the individuals who are involved in the OWASP?
Regards,
Sven
The goal was to have all OWASP related stuff together and so all the webappsec stuff going on anyway. As a response I’ve got a mail from Mark Curphey who recommended to use for example Yahoo pipes because this will not need an installation on the OWASP server. Now, to write something which belongs to the title of this posting, Christian Matthies and Ronald van den Heetkamp just launched a new website with exactly the service I wanted to have. They called it “Planet-Websecurity” and at the moment you can find there already the news feeds of ten well known blogs about web application security including mine. It’s nice to see, that also other people see a need for a centralized information pool about web application security 
Oh thats funny, thanks for writing about it.
A few days ago when I decided to finally finish the site, I in fact smelled that other people think about this too. Don’t know why actually but I knew it
Anyway, if you think that any of your closer contacts could contribute also, I’d appreciate it if you send them a mail.
Regards,
- christ1an
Yes, when I know someone, then I’ll give him/her the advice to contribute of course but at least here in Switzerland I don’t know of any other “Web-Hackers” and the usual suspects where already added to the planet
personally I prefer the Yahoo Pipes way. Why? Well because it will look less like splog and more like a place you might want ot visit to check out what’s going on online. Some people might not like JavaScript though.
planet-websecurity is good start and I wish best luck to the authors.
There is always room for improvements. A layout can be changed quickly and perhaps it would be an idea to provide a custom feed for each user.
Sounds good?
We’ve been working on a similar idea and it was just yesterday when we decided to give the project a green light. Check out http://securls.com. If you guys have any suggestions or recommendations contact us.