This is very cool I'm going to blog it if that's okay
with you - don't suppose you'd fancy writing a short (100 words) piece to go up
with my post?
Also would love to put the video of the news 24 stuff
up... have you got the video anywhere we can link to or would you like me to put
Hi,
Ian Forrester invited me to discuss my News Sniffer project on here, so
here goes.
I originally wrote the 'Watch Your Mouth' in Ruby as a little toy. It
uses the HYS RSS feeds to record all comments and spot when ones
disappear (taking into consideration the ones that slide off the bottom
Hi MarioI didnt get your point here. What do I need to do to run these demos? I'll like to have a run of them.LaurenceOn 25/10/06, Mario Menti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Using Mike's location OPML (see
http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml) and the BBC weather feeds, the following
Laurence,they are IM bots, so depending on the IM provider(s) you're using, you can add one of the below contacts to your buddy list, and then say hello (or whatever) to it. It will then ask you for the city you're interested in, and give you the weather forecast for that location.
HTH,Mario.On
On 10/26/06, Robert Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC weather feeds, the following experimental IM bots should now be running:That's very cool Mario, what language/app do you use to interface with the IMs?It's done in Perl, using an open-source framework (
http://www.duncanlamb.com/sdba/) and
Thanks John,
I certainly found this useful, specially how you use a mix of RSS and
HTML scraping to get it working (which I somewhat expected)
I've not played with the Have your say RSS feeds, and I or someone else
will feed this information back to the HYS tech team.
Cheers,
Ian
Robert Kerry wrote:
O, this looks geektastic!
Thank you, we are certainly proud of what were doing.
Question 1: Am I invited?
Everyone is invited :) as long as you get your name on the sign up page
(yet to be announced)
Question 2: Do you all work for the beeb? My sister used to work
I'm currently wasting a lot of bandwidth due to your HYS RSS feeds
having no useful caching headers. IIRC, the last modified
header always
reports the current time, there are no etags, and there aren't even any
Content-length headers! I believe this is the same for your news
articles too
When I did the weather feeds I collected a number of the location ID's -
link below:
http://server-2.webcoding.co.uk/Locations.html
Jim.
- Original Message -
From: Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:17 PM
Subject: RE:
you have to put in a search term e.g.
http://newsapi.bbc.co.uk/feeds/search/news/venezuela
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Sent: 26 October 2006 12:32
To: Ian Forrester; backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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very cool, very usefulthanksAdrianOn 10/26/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/26/06, Robert Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC weather feeds, the following experimental IM bots should now be running:That's very cool Mario, what language/app do you use to interface with the IMs?It's
For the complete framework of the public's and BBC's legal
responsibility,
it is worth reading the BBC's disclaimer and House Rules.
You also agree to indemnify the BBC against all legal fees,
damages and
other expenses that may be incurred by the BBC as a result of your
breach of the
Please excuse
my interruption, but I would in all cases expect the original author to be
accountable.
You're absolutely right; the
original author/publisher would of course be accountable, but, IIRC, under UK
libel law is is acceptable for the plaintiff to *also* sue any additional
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