10th July
2010
but i’m not sure what the best way to implement it is, maybe someone out there has a solution?
the idea is to offer a feed that you could subscribe to that would offer you a random show from our huge archive. a new show would be added to the feed at the same time everyday to create a steady stream of our content for those that want to hear something on the days we haven’t put a new show out.
i have a text file with a list of urls that i update for the archive page. i imagine there must be a nerdy way to automate the building of a new rss feed generated from random shows in that list.
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I think it would be cool if you were to post this file somewhere and just let the geeky D&D masses have a go at it. I’m sure there are loads of different ways to get your idea done.
good idea. there is now a link to it.
A PHP Banner Rotation Script would be the easiest way; but it would truly be random – possible for 1 show to be repeated before all shows aired,
but that wouldn’t add it to a feed. there’s lots of ways to display a random show, but i’m looking for an actual feed you could subscribe to. technically i could just start a new blog and create posts for all the shows and predate them so that they become available every day. but that’s a big job that i’m sure could be automated. maybe there’s a way to create a wordpress import file that would load up a blog with predated posts with random shows.
Hey Drew,
So here’s how it could work. Take a look at SimplePie. It both reads feeds and can write them. I/you/whoever could write a easy PHP script to first check the rss feeds for latest content. If there is none from the last few days then return a few random ones. You could even put memory into it by generating a stirng unique to each user which keeps a running list i a Db for users and listened content.
Building a WordPress import is a good idea. I’ll take a stab at it.
that sounds cool, but the complete archive is not currently in a feed. our feed right now can only go back to 800 if i tell wordpress to display the last 130 episodes. i only have 15 items displaying at a time.
Hey there again,
Sorry meant to say that it didn’t have to grab from a feed. It could just pull randoms from a database or file randomly.
How about a motherfucking D&D iPhone app? It calls new or random shows; has a photo viewer, from the extensive flickr archives and folowers; a tweet stream viewer – from you and your network of nutcases. A video catalog from your You Tube Channel. I’m just saying.
i totally agree jeff, we need an app builder stat! there’s so much content to play around with.
but i’m excited to say that dashdrum has been hooking me up with a wordpress import created from my text file, and i’ll be launching the site/feed super soon!