Second p0st

Hmm. It doesn't sound like everyone likes the Topic Exchange stylesheet.

So, here's the deal - open to anyone. Grab your favourite channel (or this one if you don't have a favourite) and make me a better design. Put it on the web somewhere, and drop a link to it in the comments on this post. If I like it, I'll make it (or some derivative) the default style for the Topic Exchange for a while.

In return, you'll get a little link to your blog at the bottom of each page looking something like "Page template courtesy your name here".

Make sure you put a note somewhere to say that you don't mind it being used like this. I don't want to rip off anybody's design without permission.

In future, I might make it so you can select one of a number of templates for your channels.

Just got a request for the code that powers the group-forming mailing list blog, so here it is.

It polls an RSS feed and sends all new items up to a blog using the metaWeblog API. You could make a primitive news aggregator out of it if you like -- install one copy per feed, and run them all in turn. They'll fetch the new posts and dump them all in a blog for you.

It should work with either Movable Type or Radio.

    update.py - GPL-licensed (because it requires Mark Pilgrim's RSS parser).