Here are some images and code snippets so you can put “add to Newshutch” buttons your site. Download the images to your own server or just link to the images on this page.

To create custom buttons, download this editable EPS file of our logo, or just roll your own. If you create your own buttons, we’d love to see what you come up with, so post links in the comments of this post.

Code for dark background button:

<a href="javascript:location.href='http://newshutch.com/external/add_feed?url='+encodeURIComponent('http://yoursite.com/yourfeed.rss')">
<img src=”http://www.newshutch.com/wp-content/assets/newshutch_add_dark.png” alt=”Add to Newshutch” />
</a>

Code for white background button:

<a href="javascript:location.href='http://newshutch.com/external/add_feed?url='+encodeURIComponent('http://yoursite.com/yourfeed.rss')"> <img src="http://www.newshutch.com/wp-content/assets/newshutch_add_white.png" alt="Add to Newshutch" /> </a>

(Remember to change yoursite.com/yourfeed.rss to the URL of your RSS or Atom feed.)

Our old friend Micah recently got back from a European tour with his band Giant Drag. Yesterday Micah, Doug, and I got together for an intense database and Rails optimization session.

Micah is an excellent programmer, hardware person, database expert, and a first rate drummer.

He’s also available for consulting work while he’s back in LA, so if you need a top notch developer, contact him at micah at giant drag dot com.

Sorry about the downtime today. Our hosting company had a blown router.

New features

• Flagging.
• Scrolling panes work better.
• Now we prevent adding duplicate feeds.

Fixes

• Feeds in any language and encoding should work. Old entries parsed before this update will still have invalid characters though.
• Mixed case URLs don’t mess up when adding feeds.
• Add feed bookmarklet now prompts for login when needed.
• Other bug fixes and parsing fixes.

Sorry about the downtime Saturday night from about 10:15pm to 1:30am. We’re looking into the cause of the outage, so we’ll let you know what happened. Thanks for being patient.

This is a fantastic piece of animation that combines architecture, pseudo-info graphs, and John Coltrane.

Screen shots:

Via information aesthetics.