Astronomy Media Player

Astronomy Media Player

Stuart at Astronomy Blog has put together the Astronomy Media Player, which collects (so far) 20 astronomy-related podcasts and video podcasts. I have posted a button in my sidebar linked to the AMP; clicking on it brings up a popup which allows you to choose them and listen (and watch in some cases) to these podcasts. Stuart did a great job on this. If you want to add the button in your blog sidebar like I have; you can do so by including the following code in your blog template:

<a href="http://www.jodcast.net/amp/index.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.jodcast.net/amp/index.html','amp','width=640,height=420,left=100,top=100,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes'); return false;"><img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/robot_guy/blog/astromedia.jpg" alt="Astronomy Podcasts"></a>
Also, I am working on putting together a single central location which will display the most recent blog posts in the Space Blogroll (which as of yesterday had been in operation for one year, currently with 141 blogs on the blogroll) using their RSS feeds. I have previously tried numerous times to do this through the Truth Laid Bear community pages, but so far, no luck with that.

I'll keep working on it though, as I have on and off for the last several months. Maybe someone who is a little more familiar with RSS and HTML and Javascript can help me out with putting together some kind of Space Blog community page...? What I have in mind is something that would be much like a blog (I may even do it up in Blogger), with many of the space-related sidebar items that I have in this blog, using the feeds from the space blogs and various space news sites as the main content of the site; sort of a one-stop shop for space enthusiasts to keep up with all the latest developments.

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