Yesterday evening I rolled out a new incarnation of martinjansen.com incorporating some things I had been wanting to do for quite some time. Most importantly, the site does not have any sort of administration interface anymore but only pulls content from other sites. This is what’s called a Mashup these days. The sources are:
- Tumblr for texts, photos, and quotes.
- Last.fm for some numbers on my listening habits.
- del.icio.us for links I find interesting. (Coming soon)
- Flickr for photosets. (Coming soon)
The system is built in such a way that I can add more sources easily. I would for example love to include my movie vote history from IMDb, but the corresponding RSS feed does not contain the ratings but only the names of the movies. Perhaps it is time for some screen-scraping there.
As indicated by point 1, I am writing all of the textual things that appear on martinjansen.com in my Tumblr first. I enjoy quite a few things at Tumblr (especially the dashboard), but also have a thing or two I don’t particularly agree with. Think I’ll write about this later. Still everybody with interest in blogging and little time should give it a try.
Anyway. As you can see from points 3. and 4. above, I’m not yet done with it, but I wanted to get out of the door with what I have right now. I have been sitting on the new “design elements” since Christmas. As usual the code-related work took me like half an hour, but the graphics and CSS stuff totally outgrew my capabilities.
Should you spot any errors or missing links, let me know.