Looks like he is parsing RSS feeds with PHP and pushing them out to Arduinos with LCDs.

The main advantage of using Simple PHP Blog is that it only requires PHP 4 (or greater) and write permission on the server. Unlike other blog software, there is almost no setup - just unzip and copy...

A wrapper around GMapsEZ that will take a XML file and output a map thats easy to embed as well, using this you can create maps with loads of points by just editing the XML