I use our @TangoEchoZine feed for the news items and oddities that we come across in our travels. Since our focus is on original content, we don’t republish posts about these finds. Instead, they go on our Twitter Newswire.

This was the week of April 12, 2010, in the Tango Echo News:

A Transparent Car Factory, A Death Metal Louis Armstrong, the death of Peter Steele, and a #RockBlock. Read on for the details.

I’ve long been interested in creating some physical world manifestation of [sometimes relevant] events in the virtual world. For FSoM episode 2, we decided to present the notion of a modern newswire. The concept is simple; one just queries a RESTful API or RSS feed and passes the formatted output to a line printer. With an always-on embedded computer, this becomes a device people can incorporate into their every day environments.

Watch the Video in the full article.