An overview of what came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently.

• Lucas wanted David Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi
  from: kottke.org on 11 Dec 2009
• The 10 Best Long Tracking Shots Ever Filmed
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 11 Dec 2009
• Core77 Forum Topic: Powerpoint Hell
  from: Core77 on 11 Dec 2009
• World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make
  from: Scobleizer on 11 Dec 2009
• World first 2569 x 1600 projector throws 65-foot image
  from: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine on 11 Dec 2009
• Men’s Health Caught Recycling Coverlines
  from: A Photo Editor on 11 Dec 2009
• What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 10 Dec 2009
• George Lois Rips Today’s Magazines A New One
  from: A Photo Editor on 10 Dec 2009
• Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I’m not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads
  from: Boing Boing on 10 Dec 2009
• Those houses are too small for anyone to live in
  from: The Old New Thing on 10 Dec 2009
• Joel on Software: When and how to micromanage
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 10 Dec 2009
• Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer (Bruce Johnson/The Official Google Blog)
  from: Techmeme on 9 Dec 2009
• Climate change summit will require 1200 limos and 140 private jets
  from: Philip Greenspun's Weblog on 8 Dec 2009
• Photos of Amazon.com fulfillment center
  from: Doobybrain.com on 8 Dec 2009
• Print Your Toast
  from: Core77 on 7 Dec 2009
• Color Grading Effects Demystified
  from: digitalfilms on 6 Dec 2009
• Gizmodo: Yeah, TV Executives Are Terrified of Streaming Video [Blockquote]
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 4 Dec 2009
• Somali pirate stock exchange
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 4 Dec 2009
• Rangefinderforum.com: 0.95 The making, Pictures
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 4 Dec 2009
• Fashion PDX
  from: Overheard in PDX on 26 Sep 2009

An overview of what came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently.

• Rangefinderforum.com: 0.95 The making, Pictures
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 4 Dec 2009
• Gizmodo: Aqua Tower Reminds Me of Brazil's Freshwater Desert [Architecture]
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 4 Dec 2009
• Bulletproof @font-face
  from: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report on 2 Dec 2009
• Researchers discover recipe for cheaper, more efficient fuel cell
  from: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine on 2 Dec 2009
• Anarchy and The Value Of A Photograph
  from: Chase Jarvis Blog on 1 Dec 2009
• Latest Improv Everywhere perfomance: man gets “lost” at Knicks game
  from: Boing Boing on 30 Nov 2009
• BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Paul’s because he might be “al Qaeda operative”
  from: Boing Boing on 30 Nov 2009
• The Drifter documentary now on DVD
  from: Gadling on 30 Nov 2009
• Custom Skis Part 2 – Construction
  from: – Lou Dawson's Backcountry Skiing Blog on 30 Nov 2009
• Inner City Bike
  from: Baekdal.com on 29 Nov 2009
• 11 More Final Cut Pro Tips
  from: digitalfilms on 29 Nov 2009
• Sun positions
  from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on 28 Nov 2009
• The Snuggie 2.0!
  from: WTF Pictures and WTF videos by Picture Is Unrelated on 28 Nov 2009
• Beautiful Slow Shutter Photographs
  from: Photoethnography.com on 28 Nov 2009
• strip for November / 23 / 2009: Blowing Rogue
  from: Overcompensating: The Government GoesThrough Your Trash on 23 Nov 2009
• How to estimate church attendence
  from: Tall Skinny Kiwi on 21 Nov 2009
• What Does It Say When A Comedy Show Does More Fact Checking Than News Programs?
  from: Techdirt on 20 Nov 2009
• Haha :)
  from: PaperTissue. on 18 Nov 2009
• 40 Seriously Funny Print Ads
  from: Webdesigner Depot on 10 Nov 2009
• This is Your Brain on Altitude
  from: SierraDescents.com – Climb Up and Ski Down on 6 Nov 2009

Starting this week I’ve implemented a plugin that will automatically collect recently shared items from my Google Reader subscriptions. It is in effect an overview of what I have been reading in the past week highlighting the most interesting items. Hope you enjoy them.

The plugin itself called RSS Digest hasn’t been designed with that specific task in mind however by some miraculous stroke of luck I managed to crack the problem. I’m no programmer so what might seem a trivial piece of PHP code took me the better part of an evening and a lot of nerves. The base plugin just wasn’t designed to handle the feed output Google creates, which deviates slightly from the standard RSS structure (two identically named < title > nodes on different levels), thus needed to be modified appropriately to display the list items the way I wanted it.

Now if only I could solve one other (bigger) coding problem in this blog I’d be happy…

So here goes as a test:

• Beautiful Slow Shutter Photographs
  from: Photoethnography.com on 28 Nov 2009
• Should be purple
  from: secretGeek on 28 Nov 2009
• Are Fake Academic Conferences the New Nigerian Prince Scam?
  from: Boing Boing on 27 Nov 2009
• How geeks measure things
  from: kottke.org on 27 Nov 2009