I recently finished FRESH MEAT, an assignment for Jamie Kosoy’s dynamic interfaces class. We were required to create a data mashup using two separate services, I chose an XML feed, Twitter, and YouTube to make a “roller derby aggregator” of sorts.  Jamie taught me how to scrape DNN’s score feed to make a bootleg XML file that I could use in PHP, and it was my first time attempting to understand how API’s work.   I’ve found that it’s most awesome when games are in-progress as you usually get a pretty great real-time commentary.