Spun

Talk about the the paradox of choice: A list of over 100 RSS readers. Oy.

I’ve been using Nokia’s Lifeblog software on both the PC and my phone to post to my cameraphone blog for months now and having a ball with it. (See my review of Lifeblogging with the Nokia 7610 for more info.)

Right now I’m using TypePad to host the web part of it, but if I ever want to build the capability into Scribblish (and I will) Robert Price has a nice walkthrough on how he did it for his homegrown PERL-based CMS. Also of interest alongside this - an Atom PHP implementation.

Developer Alex King’s released a PHP/MySQL app that imports your iTunes library and displays reports like your top rated artists based on number of songs.

The code imports iTunes’ Library.xml into 3 MySQL tables using PHP 5’s XML libraries, like this:

Even Alex says that’s “an ugly hack.” What’s the better way to handle it without the output buffering?

Either way, I’ve posted my iTunes library reports using Alex’s app.