MacPaint meets RSS… A proof of concept relating to several things cooking in my head at the moment like: how to make a “spatial wiki”, and incorporating “live” elements into collage-based editing tools. NB: everything is draggable (including the background to move the whole “canvas”), and texts can be resized (widths adjusted) using a not quite right resize control that appears top-right of the headline. Feed sources are semi-random at the moment (some belgian news sources + BBC & Google News), images come from either Flickr or Getty. And nothing is deletable! So embrace the randomness.
The CGI’s to pull the text + images from the feed are Python using Feedparser and some quick and dirty regex tweaking of the Flickr feed to pull out a small sized image URL.