Michigan Radio on LJ

I notice that a few of you friended michiganradio - and you've probably noticed that after a few months of nothing, there's suddenly a huge rush of articles. An explanation is in order.

(for non-SE Michigan friends, this is the U of M NPR station (they cover the entire southern half of the lower peninsula with 3 major transmitters))

A few months back they said on the air that "we're on your favorite social networking sites!" I half-jokingly sent them an email saying "I don't see you on Livejournal." The web content guy said "OK!" and created an account, but since their web content system doesn't have a way to autopost to LJ, they just left it lie.

Yesterday I send them an email poke asking if they were ever going to do anything. The guy said he didn't have any way to post automatically. I asked "fine, do you have an RSS feed?" He pointed me to it, last night I wrote a quick PERL script to post new RSS items to the livejournal account, pointed it to a test account, and emailed him back saying "here it is."

He gave me the password to the LJ Michiganradio account, and I repointed my script to that account. It updates every 20 minutes. So I guess that I'm now the official conduit for Michigan Radio on LiveJournal.

The big chunk of updates that just came across is just what's on the RSS feed all being posted at once. You won't see gigantic wads of stuff like that often, it'll just post new articles as they appear on the feed. Probably 4 or 5 a day.

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