I was called off or work tonight (was supposed to be my first mandatory overtime day), so I decided to play more with RCM. I had not got around to making an RSS feed for it yet, and I decided today was the day. It is yet another little feature I can implement that won't require a lot of work/rework and that will potentially lead to something else. Much like the initial release of RCM, this is kinda ugly, but functional, and to be totally honest, it might just stay that way. I have been looking into styling my RSS feeds, but I can only really pile so many projects on myself at once. I am also kinda waiting to see if another project (next paragraph) comes to fruition.
I was amused to see that Opera released a widgetizer for RSS feeds. It does horrible things with the RCM feed, but I was amused because this is why I wanted an RSS feed: I want to make a widget out of it. I figured it would both make me explore the widget idea (because right now I think they are next to pointless) and potentially drive a few more hits to RCM. Sure this would just be an Opera crowd, but I am not sure how big of a hit my provider can take, so I don't want to push it too much. Oh, I have a button for the toomucheffort widgetized over on the right.
This is our usage so far this month. You might notice the small usage spike on the 10th when I was building and testing RCM. Then there was the huge spike on the 11th, after we blogged about it. And then the sharp decrease on the 12th after I spent a couple of hours trimming the file size of the images down to more respectable levels for the web. Still, in one day, we had almost 500meg of usage out of our 400gig/month. If I had not trimmed the images down and RCM were to get uber popular (wishful thinking I guess) we could have been hosed.
