Nice to see another Flash RSS Viewer come along, this time with the source all available. It looks like a nice job done by the people at Erational.org.

The RSS Viewer is released under the GPL Open Source license, and the PHP source files, as well as the FLA is available for download from the site.

They have also made a Flash RSS banner, which looks pretty nifty.

Check out the info page at Erational.org for more information about the rssViewer, on the info page you will also find the rssBanner.

The only improvement I could think of that they could do, would be to include my newsfeed ;-) As luck would have it, the rssViewer allows you to add your own favorite RSS feeds to the viewer.

[Via SwfNews]

Its not long since Flash 6/MX was released, but Macromedia is probably already hard at work on projecting the next version of Flash. Although probably not directly related, Mike Chambers used a slow day to ask the question: "What do you want to see in the next version of Flash?" - Not too surprising that it sparked a lot of suggestions and discussion.

Its impressive to see Macromedia keep churning out great Flash development and design articles. Mike, as usual, has the list of new content at Macromedia.

I'll let you take the trip to Mike to check out the complete list. What I immediately think are the two most interesting new articles are the new sample application - Blackboard Group Management, and John's article about how not to get help (and how to get help, for that matter)

Mike Chambers followed up a posting on SwfNews about professional bloggers. While the though about people blogging as a profession is interesting, the discussion that it spawned on Mike Chambers weblog is even more interesting to me.

Personally I think Macromedia and other companies will be better of letting the people closes to the topic that is to be discussed handle the writing, rather than hiring professional writers. To me that is what blogging is all about, writing about what you know best and work with (at least for the tech blogs), rather than writing because that is what you know best.