Touchstone Ouput Adapter - myBroadSheet
John from Library Clips and I have been emailing back and forward about our idea of 'news as a newspaper'.
It was a project that I have wanted to start for a while. The idea being that RSS news could be presented less like email (as feed readers do) and more like a print newspaper.
I have had the domain myBroadSheet (.com, .net and .org) registered for a while, but I had hidden the site away ready for the day when I had a flash animator to help me create the first broadsheet.
Then John posted on his blog about an idea that almost exactly resembled the project I was trying to start!
We got to talking and he has kindly linked to the staging site and put the word out to find a flash animator for us.
Powered by Touchstone, we could easily create an enriched XML file that had enough information (article importance, related images, items from multiple feeds etc) that a flash file would consume and present to the screen in a way that resembles a good old fashioned newspaper.
I saw it as a way to give a niche news experience (the experience that RSS makes possible) in a metaphor that made RSS more user friendly.
So let us know if you want to help out and you have 'l337 flash skilz'.
It was a project that I have wanted to start for a while. The idea being that RSS news could be presented less like email (as feed readers do) and more like a print newspaper.
I have had the domain myBroadSheet (.com, .net and .org) registered for a while, but I had hidden the site away ready for the day when I had a flash animator to help me create the first broadsheet.
Then John posted on his blog about an idea that almost exactly resembled the project I was trying to start!
We got to talking and he has kindly linked to the staging site and put the word out to find a flash animator for us.
Powered by Touchstone, we could easily create an enriched XML file that had enough information (article importance, related images, items from multiple feeds etc) that a flash file would consume and present to the screen in a way that resembles a good old fashioned newspaper.
I saw it as a way to give a niche news experience (the experience that RSS makes possible) in a metaphor that made RSS more user friendly.
So let us know if you want to help out and you have 'l337 flash skilz'.
1 Comments:
This is like the post above it. It seems you guys have the right idea. Like Microsoft you're making this RSS stuff (which I only discovered from your site) understandable in my langage - newspapers I understand!
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