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There would all kinds of rad ways to use the list of the 100 most current UThink posts. I'm envisioning big scrolling ticker with all of those seemingly random post titles streaming across it. It feels a little corny but it could have a big sign above it that says, "What are UThinking?" A sort of pseudo-random snapshot of the U blogosphere... cool. I suppose I should try to build a web page that does this first, then I can worry about projecting it onto buildings... or how about robots that write it all out on the sidewalks with chalk?
I wrote a script that parses the current entries page and turns it into an RSS feed. It runs a little slow, but it seems to work alright. You can copy one of the following links into your news aggregator application:
The curious among us will notice that they can select how many posts to return based on the "entries" variable in the URL (the max is 100.)
Posted on March 25, 2005 5:45 PM by westr015 | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) UThink
Aaron, as you might imagine, I am very interested in this. We should get together and talk about this sometime! I have some other ideas concerning categories too.
Posted by: Shane at March 29, 2005 8:29 PMBy the way, there is an RSS feed for the 10 most recent posts at:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/recent
That is what the portal uses for the UThink channel.
Posted by: Shane at March 29, 2005 8:31 PM