Friday, March 8, 2002After three weeks of corner-turning and mission-critical work with lots of breakage potential, I did a little programming that absolutely no one is depending on or waiting for.
There's a little story first. A long time ago when weblogs.com was starting, we had a little thing where people could choose their own Zeldman icons and when they updated the icon would appear on Scripting News (with a link of course). When we did the big weblogs.com corner-turn last fall, the icons came back (on the weblogs.com home page), but only some of the weblogs-with-icons made the transition.
I've been tracking updates of the Zeldman-iconified weblogs since the corner-turn, and today I finally was in the right place in the right mood to write out an XML feed (every fifteen minutes) with the in-use icons. For each icon it says when the weblog last updated (in GMT), how many times it has updated since we started tracking, and links to the website.
Maybe there's some interesting data to track here? I don't know. You tell me. 