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CSS in a River of News, progress report
Friday, June 19, 2009 by Dave Winer.
I've done some more work on the CSS-in-Rivers project. 
I'm sticking with the plan. I'm going to have a new tool that makes it really easy to configure the CSS in realtime, without having to change any code, so people can play with a real aggregator and hack up its appearance.
You can see the result in the public page, which is updated every 10 minutes.
http://scripting.com/misc/riverExample.html
I expect to release the tool before the end of the weekend, Murphy-willing.
PS: Yes I know it's ugly! By design. To make you want to change it. 
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Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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