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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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For the last few months I’ve been working on a news project for the LEGO
community. It’s not even near done, however it’s high time for a preliminary
look.
http://www.ilenn.com/dev/index2.php
This page will display LEGO-related news from many different sources. The
initial alpha release pulls news in hourly and displays it accordingly.
There are many features that are not yet implemented, but are currently
being worked on. These upcoming features will include:
- Localized language (e.g. German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and so on)
- Personalized settings (e.g. specify different sources, views, aggregated news feeds, etc.)
- Submission of LEGO news sources
- Custom news entry form
- Search old LEGO-related news
There are currently 26 news sources that have pumped in more than 6,500 news
articles, which will be searchable sometime shortly.
It’s my hope that providing this sneak peek will spur development efforts,
since I sometimes have a tendency to stall if I don’t have a deadline (right,
Joe?) and I figure announcing this publicly will provide me with a kick in
the butt.
So what does the future hold?
As development progresses, I’m hopeful that some others in the community will
help - especially with language localization, and providing RSS (news) feeds
from their own LEGO-related web sites.
The more LEGO-specific sources are available, the more useful this tool can
be. I’ll be happy to work with LEGO-related content owners (e.g. fan sites)
that would like to provide news feeds in RSS format.
I’d like to thank those who’ve helped with this, especially Dan Boger and
Jake McKee, and to webmasters who’ve already added RSS feeds, including Kyle
Keppler.
Kelly McKiernan
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OK, cool!!! So how do we pronounce it? Eye-len? Eye-lean, as in, “I lean
towards LEGO? or maybe it’s just “illin”?
Anyway, very cool!!!!!
Mike Harrod (lapsing into a comma)
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In lugnet.general, Michael Harrod wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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For the last few months I’ve been working on a news project for the LEGO
community. It’s not even near done, however it’s high time for a preliminary
look.
http://www.ilenn.com/dev/index2.php
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OK, cool!!! So how do we pronounce it? Eye-len? Eye-lean, as in, “I lean
towards LEGO? or maybe it’s just “illin”?
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Thanks, Michael! I’ve been pronouncing it “eye-lenn” which has inspired the palm
tree motif and the name of the associated blog, ILENN Paradise. I’m a sucker for
a bad pun.
Kelly
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Michael Harrod wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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For the last few months I’ve been working on a news project for the LEGO
community. It’s not even near done, however it’s high time for a
preliminary look.
http://www.ilenn.com/dev/index2.php
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OK, cool!!! So how do we pronounce it? Eye-len? Eye-lean, as in, “I lean
towards LEGO? or maybe it’s just “illin”?
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Thanks, Michael! I’ve been pronouncing it “eye-lenn” which has inspired the
palm tree motif and the name of the associated blog, ILENN Paradise. I’m a
sucker for a bad pun.
Kelly
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Oh, Ok....as in, No man is an ILENN. Except you. The tropical reference threw me
at first. Thanks for the explanation.
M
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