First Things First
- You're looking for the Altoids 9v USB Charger, right? (Buy it here)
- If you're wondering who I am or what's going on, this might be helpful.

E3 starts tomorrow, and astute observers might notice that I am not currently in LA.

This will be the first time since 2004, the first year I was old enough to get in, that I wont be attending E3. Also, neither will any of my colleagues from whatever gaming site I happen to work for at the moment (GameBump still).

The reasons for this are purely financial, as I (for once) don't have $planeticket and $hotelroomforaweek lying around in petty cash. Right now, even the thought of $gastogetoairport seems pretty steep.

If any cool people ask, though, I'm not going because E3 is totallu dead etc etc. Last year was pretty much a nightmare for me, and if this year were organized the same I wouldn't even want to go, but it's back at the LA Convention Center and not at a thousand hotels across Santa Monica. Whatever, nobody cares about my coverage anyway.

In leiu...loue....loo...lieu of actually going to E3, I made this new site called e3Feed...

The short of it is that it uses RSS feeds to automatically slurp all the content from over a dozen gaming news sites, swishes it around in its digital mouth, and spits out only the E3 stories. Users can then select the sources they want to see stuff from and search for specific words/games/etc. It's entirely automated, I just set it and forget it.

This is the first full-production site I've done entirely on my own (usually I have someon else (John) do the graphic design), and it's the first time I've made really heavy use of AJAX (if you don't know what that is, consider yourself lucky) so I'm sort of both unusually proud and secretly ashamed of it simultaneously.

Ever since RSS feeds came around I've wanted to do some kind of... thing to merge multiple sites' content automatically and this is the first time I've gotten to play around with the concept. The idea can be expanded beyond just E3 news, and I eventually want to get into some kind of smart analysis of link maps (site A links to site B report about site C's coverage of story X) and site ranks (therefore site C must be better).

At this point, I really have no idea how many websites I currently own and operate.