Newspapers of the world rotation

18Apr07
by hannes

Newspaper front page
Ahh… procrastination. Instead of doing my homework, I went to get coffee at the FSM cafe and noticed they have new boxes displaying the front pages of various international newspapers. I liked it, so I used the coffee buzz to write a little Flash app that does the same thing, similar to the displays at the Berkeley I-House Cafe.

Newspaper rotation
Standalone SWF (try full-screen mode in Flash Player)

The data comes from the Newseum.

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  1. 1 Elisa on Apr 18th, 2007 said:

    I’m beginning to look forward to assignment deadlines just to see the creativity that procrastination sparks in people…

  2. 2 dannynono on Apr 19th, 2007 said:

    I’m not able to get the links to work. Is the app still functioning?

  3. 3 kaysavaa on Apr 19th, 2007 said:

    I like to think that this blog post: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~kesava/2007/02/05/enough-coverage/ had some effect in the installation of new boxes. :D

  4. 4 Ken-ichi on Apr 19th, 2007 said:

    I’m pretty sure those boxes have been there for a while, but way to procrastinate. Care to post the code for the Flash-inclined?

  5. 5 hannes on Apr 20th, 2007 said:

    Sure, the Flash file is called newspaper_rotation.fla. Also, I created a new version that loads the next front page in the background and cross-fades them (code taken from “Flickr Hacks” by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner).

  6. 6 mcd on Apr 21st, 2007 said:

    Does the Newseum feed include link information, such that you could make clicking on the image take one to that paper’s site?

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