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The Archers RSS Feed
February 24th, 2005
You’ve probably got to be British to understand, but The Archers is a radio-based soap opera produced by the BBC that enjoys cult status in the UK and further afield. So much so, that the fan club is called Archers Addicts - and the name is not an understatement. They make Trekkies look positively amateur.
For a long while, it’s been possible to get a synopsis of the previous episode by email every day (and in fact you can also listen to it online as well). While that’s great, it’s annoyed me in a niggling low-grade way for a long time that there’s no equivalent RSS feed - email’s just so, well, 20th century.
Well, now there is. In a coding frenzy (alright, configuring a Wordpress blog) I have created The Archers RSS Feed - available in a news aggregator right now. It’s probably going to get me a cease-and-desist from the BBC, but hey - seek not permission, seek forgiveness - as the old saying goes.
Technically it’s a bit ropey, scraping the email and converting it into a blog post; but it works, and I’ll no doubt get around to making it a bit more funky in the next few days. A tip of the hat to John Blade, who coded an enhanced email-to-Wordpress module which I’ve ripped off mercilessly.
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alternatively you could have subscribed a mailbucket.org address to the mailing list to have it do it automatically. Check out http://mailbucket.org
Hey, where’d it go?
Ah - too much to do, and too little time to do it. I’ll get it back up and working eventually…