06.07.07
What I’m Reading
I’ve recently lamented at the fact that I’ve become such a Google freak. You really must check out the new Google Reader. One intriguing feature is the ability to quickly share items that you are reading. When you mark an item to share, Google adds this item to a publicly available list. This list is published as a regular web page and as a feed.
The thought occurred to me that I could create a script to extract data from that feed and publish a “what I’m reading” module on my blog. This would allow me to modify my blog by simply marking items as “shared” in the Google Reader and these links would then auto-magically appear on my blog!
Well, if you look to the side-bar on the right, you can see my new “What I’m Reading” feature. I’m currently parsing the XML using PHP, but maybe later I’ll turn this into an AJAX script to improve performance and allow for background processing of the list.
In the mean time, if you want the PHP code, leave a comment.
