{"id":2123,"date":"2008-05-07T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T14:31:36","slug":"rss-feed-screen-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"RSS Feed Screen Saver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/rssaver.jpg' alt='Screen Shot' \/><\/p>\n<p>I just noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\">Mac OS X<\/a> has a RSS feed screensaver that shows headlines in spiraling columns. When you see an item you want to read you press a key and it opens the item. It is an interesting example of live text visualization. You can see it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qExm2_dT5JE&amp;feature=related\">YouTube &#8211; RSS Feed on my Screen saver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/artzcomposer.jpg\" alt=\"Quartz Composer Screen Shot\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The RSS Screensaver seems to be built in a visual programming language for the Mac called <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/GraphicsImaging\/Conceptual\/QuartzComposerUserGuide\/qc_intro\/chapter_1_section_1.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40005381-CH201-TPXREF101\">Quartz Composer<\/a>. From the documentation and discussions online it sounds like something one can play with easily (when I have the time.)<\/p>\n<p>What would an academic screen saver look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that Mac OS X has a RSS feed screensaver that shows headlines in spiraling columns. When you see an item you want to read you press a key and it opens the item. It is an interesting example of live text visualization. You can see it on YouTube &#8211; RSS Feed on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RSS Feed Screen Saver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-media","category-text-analysis","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}