Hi Peter, Just out of curiousity after looking at that demo page, do you think it is a good idea mixing Twitter feeds with "ordinary" news feeds. While I'm sure that all feeds will have stylistic differences, Twitter feels to me like quite a different medium with quite different intent and content.
Jon On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am busy creating some protoype for an automatically updating > CrossWire news page. This is so far my private work, but if it finds > reasonable consensus it might go into the update of the site. > > You can see what is happening here > > http://www.crosswire.org/~refdoc/test_site/index.jsp?section=News > > (This will change as I keep working on it) > > I think the general agreement is that our "news" > section is commonly old news, and a lot of stuff which happens is > nowhere to see for the general public. > > My thought was : > > If all frontends would have an RSS feed for their releases and other > important news then the News page's work could be simply to aggregate > this. > > CrossWire itself is already riddled with RSS feeds which often do > update quite well. Several frontends do have very useful feeds, but > some don't. > > I think it should be simple to have a small perl script or similar > hanging out on your servers and produce this. This would take out the > pain of updating news in a variety of places. > > Those of you who use the CrossWire news facility - ignore me, unless > you like the idea of an RSS feed for your own reasons. But if you do > establish RSS feeds, please tell me. > > Thanks > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > jsword-devel mailing list > jsword-de...@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/jsword-devel > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
