When you’re a blogger, it is really important to stay up to speed with the latest news within your particular niche. People take you more seriously when you’re one of the first to cover a significant event – even more so if you cover it before the major mainstream media even catches wind of it.
If you’re a news blogger, the importance of staying up to date on breaking news is even more critical. Ever since I started covering more news-related events on my own blog, I realized how important it was to constantly monitor real-time news. Since I use two screens with my laptop, I realized that I could set up one screen to be exclusively for streaming incoming news tickers.
The only problem is that while there are decent apps for streaming single lines of news, likeYahoo Widgets or GlowDart, those displays either cover just a very small stream of incoming text, or they are difficult to customize to look exactly the way you want in a full-screen sort of mode.
Creating Your Own Full Page Real-Time News Display
To solve this problem, I realized that I would have to build something myself. Since I really didn’t want to take the time to write an entire application, I decided to create a webpage with the embedded RSS
