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.
I’m beginning to look forward to assignment deadlines just to see the creativity that procrastination sparks in people…
I’m not able to get the links to work. Is the app still functioning?
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.
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?
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).
Does the Newseum feed include link information, such that you could make clicking on the image take one to that paper’s site?