Newspapers of the world rotation
Ahh… procrastination. Instead of doing my homework, I went to get coffee at the FSM cafe and noticed they have new boxes displaying the front pages of various international newspapers. I liked it, so I used the coffee buzz to write a little Flash app that does the same thing, similar to the displays at the Berkeley I-House Cafe.
Newspaper rotation
Standalone SWF (try full-screen mode in Flash Player)
The data comes from the Newseum.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I’m beginning to look forward to assignment deadlines just to see the creativity that procrastination sparks in people…
April 19th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I’m not able to get the links to work. Is the app still functioning?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I like to think that this blog post: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~kesava/2007/02/05/enough-coverage/ had some effect in the installation of new boxes.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I’m pretty sure those boxes have been there for a while, but way to procrastinate. Care to post the code for the Flash-inclined?
April 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Sure, the Flash file is called newspaper_rotation.fla. Also, I created a new version that loads the next front page in the background and cross-fades them (code taken from “Flickr Hacks” by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner).
April 21st, 2007 at 9:21 am
Does the Newseum feed include link information, such that you could make clicking on the image take one to that paper’s site?