LCD News Readout How-to

This is a How-To to create a LCD style news ticker embedded on your desktop as referenced in my previous post.

What you’ll need

LCD Font
Samurize
A news source that publishes RSS feeds.

You should be able to find links to these on the main page of most large newspapers and news organizations. We’ll be using the CNN Top [...]

Frontiers of Business – Reputation Monitoring on a Budget

Reputation management companies are a small but growing community, listing services that monitor blogs, forums and the mainstream media to alert a company about disgruntled customers publicizing their grievances. With a little experimentation you can get similar service from an RSS reader and some careful internet searching.

The symbol above is something you might recognize. It [...]

Sunday Religious Studies – New York Times Religion Section

There is a wide array of sources, commentary and news available on the internet regarding religion in the public life of Americans. I’m hoping to write a short section on Beliefnet, GetReligion and a few of my favorite books. To start this out, I’m going to feature something a little more obscure and difficult to [...]