Announcing IrishPulse
As I previously threatened, I’ve gone ahead and created a “Microplanet” for Irish twitterers, similar to Portland’s Pulse of PDX — an aggregator of the “stream of consciousness” that comes out of our local Twitter community: IrishPulse.
Here’s what you can do:
Add yourself: if you’re an Irish Twitter user, follow the user ‘irishpulse’. This will add you to the sources list.
Publicise it: feel free to pass on the URL to other Irish Twitter users, and blog about it.
Read it: bookmark and take a look now and again!
In terms of implementation, it’s just a (slightly patched) copy of Venus and a perl script using Net::Twitter to generate an OPML file of the Twitter followers. Here’s the source. I’d love to see more “Pulse” sites using this…
Tags: hacks, ireland, irishpulse, sites, twitter
Joe Drumgoole said,
March 7, 2008 @ 12:39 am
You can take Perl away from the man, you can’t take the man away from Perl :-)
Justin said,
March 7, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Joe, you’ll be happy to hear Venus is an all-Python codebase ;)
Joe Drumgoole said,
March 7, 2008 @ 11:40 am
Perl and Python, a match made in heaven :-)
Zerolove said,
April 13, 2008 @ 5:50 am
So i’m running it for some of us back in the US. How often do you update? I’m doing via cron jobs right now.