I'm all set to launch a potential new portion to the Plucker
website that would make it a bit more useful to some users.
I have been collecting and harvesting URLs and various Palm
formatted websites for quite some time, including XML and RSS renditions of
lots of sites (about 600 sites in my collection so far). I'm beginning to do
daily and hourly builds of these sites and have decided to put them where
other people can take advantage of them. Here's a screenshot of what the
interface looks like so far (subject to slight changes of course):
http://gnu-designs.com/code/plucker-dailydose.gif
There are about 40 listed so far in the 'daily dose' section that
are "common" sites and are broad enough for nearly anyone to use. I can
surely take suggestions for other sites as needed.
The question becomes.. should we make this type of information
available on the website? Or should we leave it off, because of the
potential "transcoding" concerns? I think I know Mike's opinion on this one,
but I'd like to hear from others.
The other option is that I make these urls gather the content
"runtime" (upon click, like the CVS snapshot is done now) rather than by a
schedule as it is now. The display you see is completely dynamic, taken from
a directory of pdb files and images which match them. File size, date,
update stamp, etc. are all pulled from the pdb file itself.
Comments anyone?
If anyone hasn't noticed, I'm trying to brush up on my perl a bit
more because there's a whole bunch of new things coming soon... but I'd like
to do something a bit more interactive on the site to keep people coming
back.
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