Craigslist update

So I've been successfully parsing craigslist with a little scraping program that saves entries into simple XML. I limited the scope to entries within the last 3 days, but I suspect it's still going to be too much data to work with. It's been running for a number of hours now and it's about a third of the way through the US with over 50MB of data saved. I really won't get a sense of how much is too much though, until I try parsing it back into a program and try to organize it in real time.

Anyway, I've also started playing around with icon ideas, mostly looking at gender (of both the poster or who they're looking for) and category (what their looking for). Some sketches below:

College symbols/icons/ideas

I sketched a few ideas, which hopefully you can see in the image to the left.

For distinguishing which list a college is on, I was thinking of just doing color-coding of whatever symbol/icon I choose.

While I don't have any animation or sound, I was thinking that I would introduce each icon as the user chooses it (or whatever) with some animation, something more than just having the item appear there.

I'll keep thinking about it this weekend, I'd like to come up with something a little more interesting than these...