If like me you use the awesome news reader Flipboard on your smart phone or tablet, you are probably disapointed that there is not a climbing category for you to view. I felt like that as well and decided to have my own hackathon today. I took some generic JQuery flipboard styling that someone had put together and then linked it to the climbing news page I had on iCoach and produced Vertical Life Magazine.
I had a few gliches on the way and I have to wait to see if my code takes the the images from the blogs. However is looks really good and if the code behind it stands up then it should work really well too.
As a blogger, I do hate people essentially stealling my blog post or images, if people don’t link back to the source. As such I have limited the words we get from the original sources to 100 and only take one image that is not displayed full size. We also only keep the details for 24 hours at the moment although I might increase it to 48, as the idea is that it is more like newpapers highlighting the news of the day.
The only problem is you need to view the page in safari, chrome or iPad. Without it you can’t get the effects. Believe it is a small price to pay to see it. I will list all the blogs it links too, but in the mean time if you have a blog you’d like to see included then message me here and I’ll add the RSS feed to the database.