flickrSLiDR is a neat little tool that enables you to embed a Flickr slideshow on your website or blog. It’s very easy to use - you paste in the URL of the group or set and choose a size for the slideshow, and then you’re given a code snippet which you simply add to the webpage.

Here’s one I created for a set of photos I took in and around Marylebone High Street in London.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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One of the blogs I subscribe to is Simon Dickson’s Puffbox. Simon’s a web consultant who specialises in news and e-government. Like me, he’s a real fan of the Wordpress blogging platform and a number of his client projects push the boundaries of Wordpress to create exciting and innovative websites. You can read about Simon’s use of Wordpress here.

Simon’s recently adopted Google’s concept of ‘20 per cent time’ to develop onepolitics, a site that provides an at-a-glance view of the latest posts on political blogs by journalists and high profile bloggers. The site’s updated every 15 minutes and provides a simple way to keep abreast of political blogs, without needing to understand RSS feeds or manage your own blog subscriptions.

Nicely designed and easy-to-use, I think it’s a great model for feed aggregation - and the flexibility of Wordpress should mean it can easily be tailored to provide an overview of feeds on a different topic or even a variety of topics. Great work, Simon!